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tainly not from a picture. And the text only says it was built sometime after 1740, when Francis Thornton selected the sites for his sons’ homes. That much is obvious.
THE selection of houses is perplexing. Other houses, more likely and deserving for inclusion in such a book, come quickly to mind. But such a selection process is bound to be personal and inevitably, reflect the authors’tastes and perhaps friends and acquaintances. But unfortuantely several houses in this volume (none from Rappahannock, Fauquier or Loudoun, though) creeped in, with bad results.
For instance, there’s an unpretentious, clapboard farmhouse with stone chimneys that’s been sorely blemished by two wide 20th Century picture windows. Honestly, with all the fine houses, some straightforward and unadorned, others ornate and elegant, left in the Virginia Piedmont, it does look like the authors could have found a substitute, unsullied by such latter day intrusions.
But on the whole, for anyone interested in Virginia or houses, “Old Virginia Houses of The Piedmont” is a lovely book. Many
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