Stuart House (Staunton, Virginia) Explained

Stuart House
Nrhp Type:cp
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:January 18, 1972[1]
Designated Other1 Number:132-0006
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:120 Church St., Staunton, Virginia
Coordinates:38.1472°N -79.0758°W
Built:, 1791, 1844
Builder:Stuart, Archibald
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:May 5, 1972
Refnum:72001531

Stuart House is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. The original portion of the house was built in 1791, and is a story, temple-form brick structure fronted by a two-level pedimented portico supported by four very simple and provincial Tuscan order-like columns. The house is five bays wide and three bays deep. The house has a large -story brick wing added in 1844. The wing is fronted by a gallery ornamented with lattice-work and supported on brick piers. Also on the property is a gambrel roof frame building, erected sometime after 1783 as Archibald Stuart's residence and law office, and a pyramidal roof smokehouse. According to family tradition, Stuart received plans or suggestions for the house's design from his close friend, Thomas Jefferson. Archibald Stuart died in 1832 and the house was inherited by his son, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1807-1891).[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Newtown Historic District.

External links

2 photo, 2 measured drawings, and 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 19 March 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Stuart House . Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff. January 1972. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo