Includes sixty-seven illustrations and twenty-two coats-of-arms
"The interest which is shown to-day in the restoration and preservation of early mansions,
encouraged me to undertake this meagre story
of Virginia's oldest and most far-famed manor
houses, no State in the Union boasting such a
wealth of historic estates as this superb old Commonwealth,
towards which the rest of the country so proudly looks.
"Following that period of bravery and awe
during which the corner-stone of America was so firmly laid, came the more pleasing era of plantation
life, founded by men whose names are high
enrolled in the hook of history, and whose homes
were little kingdoms worthy of the sincere study
of our less picturesque generation, which may
in them relive that wonderful yesterday, forgetting
and regretting this later age in the
dreams and reveries born of a knowledge of how
the grandees lived in Colonial times.
CONTENTS – Virginia Manors
Family | Estate | | Family | Estate |
Allen | Tuckahoe | | Hill | Shirley |
Bailet | Chatham | | Hopkins | Bbooke's Bank |
Barbour | Rosewell | | Howard | Kenmobe |
Barton | Kenmore | | Hutchins | Oatlands |
Beverley | Blandfield | | Jefferson | Monticello |
Bisland | Carter's Grove | | Jones | Chatham |
Booth | Carter's Grove | | Kester | Gunston Hall |
Booth | Rosewell | | Lacy | Chatham |
Bransford | Shirley | | Lee | Stratford Hall |
Braxton | Elsing Green | | Levy | Monticello |
Brooke | Brooke's Bank | | Lewis | Kenmobe |
Browne | Elsing Green | | Madison | Montpelier |
Bruce | Berry Hill | | Mann | Rosewell |
Burwell | Carter's Grove | | Mason | Gunston Hall |
Byrd | Westover | | Minge | Sherwood Forest |
Carter | Oatlands | | Nelson | The Nelson House |
Carter | Sabine Hall | | Page | Rosewell |
Carter | Shirley | | Ramsay | Westover |
Carter | Westover | | Randolph | Monticello |
Catlett | Rosewell | | Randolph | Tuckahoe |
Coalter | Chatham | | Rives | Castle Hill |
Coles | Berry Hill | | Saunders | Brooke's Bank |
Coles | Estouteville | | Selden | Westover |
Coolidge | Tuckahoe | | Sharp | Woodlawn |
Custis | Woodlawn | | Smith | Gunston Hall |
Dandbidge | Elsing Green | | Specht | Gunston Hall |
Deans | Rosewell | | Starke | Stratford Hall |
Douthat | Westover | | Stewart | Stratford Hall |
Drewery | Westover | | Tatloe | Mount Airy |
Dupont | montpelier | | Taylor | Rosewell |
EusTis | Oatlands | | Tyler | Sherwood Forest |
Fitzhugh | Chatham | | Walker | Castle Hill |
Gordon | Kenmore | | Wellford | Sabine Hall |
Geegory | Elsing Green | | Wight | Tuckahoe |
Harrison | Brandon | | | |
Book #2
“Whereas, the early architecture of New England, and the neighborhoods of New York, Philadelphia,
and Washington, has been often and ably published, there has been for many years no
serious attempt to cover the rich field for inquiry and study in Maryland and Virginia. There
is no doubt of the importance to modern Colonial architecture of these old tidewater buildings,
for they represent the Colonial architecture of brick in contrast to the less pretentious frame buildings
of the north. The homes of Maryland and Virginia remain for us as the aristocrats of our early architecture, the
forefathers of the modern brick Colonial style.”