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Woodstock Hall Tavern, also known as the Woods-Tavern, Woodstock Hall, and Hilandale, is a historic tavern located at Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built in 1757, and enlarged by the addition of a front wing in 1808. It consists of the original two-story, frame hall-parlor dwelling, with the addition of the temple-front, Federal-style ...
Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]
Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...
A rear view of the main structure showing the original hall and parlor house enlarged with a second story and an ornate rear porch. During the Depression years, the house was leased to a tenant farmer. The Tarry family returned to live at Long Grass in the late 1950s. In the 1950s, the house was renovated and retrofitted with modern mechanical ...
Poplar Hill is a historic home located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The house was built about 1793, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, frame, hall and parlor-plan dwelling. It has an early 19th-century lean-to rear addition, a post American Civil War kitchen addition, a 1920s one-room addition, and a screened-in front porch on the ...
Adam Wall House is a historic home located near Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, five-bay, log dwelling with a modified hall and parlor plan. It is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a gable roof, exterior brick end chimneys, one-story porch, and a two-story frame ell.
It was built in 1774, and has a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, hall and parlor plan dwelling with brick ends and frame front and back. It has a steep gable roof. The interior features complex paneling with built in cupboards and original doors and hardware. The house is a rare survivor of a once common Eastern Shore form, the small brick end house. [3]
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