File:Murray-Dick-Fawcett House, 517 Prince Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA HABS VA,7-ALEX,51-1.tif
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[edit]- Murray-Dick-Fawcett House, 517 Prince Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA | |||||
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- Murray-Dick-Fawcett House, 517 Prince Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA |
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Description |
Murray, Patrick; Newton, William; Brown, William; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Wells, Camille, historian |
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Depicted place | Virginia; Independent City; Alexandria | ||||
Date | Documentation compiled after 1933 | ||||
Dimensions | 5 x 7 in. | ||||
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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HABS VA,7-ALEX,51-1 |
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By agreement presented in court in 1774, John Alexander conveyed a half-lot to Patrick Murray who was to improve the parcel by building a house. Murray had already done so in 1772, erected a dwelling that was a 1 1/2 story structure with a footprint of 31' x 19' and arranged around a hall-chamber plan. It was a wood structure, resting on a brick foundation, sheathed in flush beaded siding originally painted a reddish brown. The roof was covered with round-butt shingles. There was a chimney at the west end. The half-story above was reached by an enclosed winder stair. The hall was embellished with cabinetry, but both first floor rooms exhibited pedestal surbases (chair rails), molded architraves, and raised paneling on the doors. Murray enlarged the house in 1785 with a wood-framed shed addition, making four rooms on the first floor with a passage and converting the winder stair into a single run stair to the upper floor. The west room of the addition was also heated. Murray offered the house for sale in 1792; it was bought three years later by John Thomas Ricketts and William Newton. The latter lived in the house and replaced Murray's kitchen with a brick ell (44 'x 16') for service rooms. The ell was one-story, gable- roofed, and made of brick laid in 3:1 common bond. William Brown bought the house in 1816, where he had been living for several years, and removed the entrance porch and sealed the bulkhead entrance to the cellar from Prince Street. The new entry was through a doorway in the east gable end that had been added in 1784.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va0167.photos.164518p | ||||
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File change date and time | 17:48, 7 January 2000 |