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residence of bricks baked in a kiln right on the farm. Skilled craftsmen handcarved the woodwork inside and out, including the impressive circular stairway. The exterior brickwork was enboldened with “quolning”, a form of decoration fashionable in those days as a special styling on traditional homes.
“Everything happens to us in June,” exclaimed Mrs. Hall in telling how it was on June 26, 1912 that she and Will were married, it will be this Friday, June 26, when she and Will actually move out of Rose Hill, and it was in June, 1949, that they moyed into it.
The Halls bought Rose Hill in 1947 from Mrs. Robert W. Miller and her son, Robert Miller, Jr. Mrs. Miller was “Kitty Kinsey” Miller, a granddaughter of John Fletcher. In 1949 the Halls hired a master carpenter and contractor, the late Charles Hawkins of Boston, Va., to do the restoration of the home, which originally was built by his grandfather. “The perfect taste of. Mrs. William C. Hall in the restoration is a delight to the eyes,” said a Garden Tour brochure.
The spacious home has eight rooms, six of which are the same size, 18 by 18; the other two are
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