Mason House (Guilford, Virginia) Explained

Mason House
Designated Other1:	Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:	September 17, 1974^[1]
Designated Other1 Number:	001-0029
Designated Other1 Num Position:	bottom
Coordinates:	37.8336°N -75.6539°W
Built:	c.
Builder:	Andrews, William
Architecture:	Colonial, Jacobean-Georgian
Added:	November 21, 1974
Area:	less than one acre
Refnum:	74002100

Mason House, also known as the Hinman-Mason House, is an historic dwelling located at Guilford in Accomack County, Virginia.^[2] Trees were cut for its construction in the winter of 1729/30 and construction likely started soon thereafter.^[3]

The house is an early example of one laid out with a center passage.^[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

External links

• Hinman-Mason House, Guilford, Accomack County, VA

23 photos, 5 measured drawings, and 4 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

Notes and References

1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12.
2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mason House . Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. July 1974. and Accompanying photo
3. Report by Herman J. Heikkenen, Architectural Research Files, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. See also Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury, The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013
4. See report in files, Department of Architectural Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.