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Mr. McBride traced the Hawkins legacy to Mordecai Hawkins, who married Mary Anne Willis in 1832. She bore seven sons, most of whom became builders in the mid- to late 18008 and some of whom became fathers, uncles and grandfathers to men who kept up the family tradition in the early 1900s.
Mr. McBride said that one of the earliest Hawkins buildings was Rose Hill, built right after the Civil War. Every driver on Route 211 has seen this red brick mansion with its white shutters, gracefully perched on the north side of the highway between Massie’s Comer and little Washington.
For those who have wondered why the shutters on the ends of this house are never open, Mr. McBride has the answer: “There are no windows behind them.” They’re purely decorative fixtures, inset in the brick walls.
Rose Hill is Mr. McBride’s favorite Hawkins house. It all comes together in Rose Hill, he said. The pleasing proportions, the careful workmanship. “I’ve never seen anything like the detailing in Rose Hill.”
Many of the buildings raised by the three generations of Hawkinssuch as their most elegant creation, a 1931 stone Tudor mansion on the grounds of Communications Corporation of America in Boston, Va.cannot be seen from public roads. But those mentioned earlier in this article can be driven by, as can these:
-The Hawkins Brothers mill, a 5,000-square-foot building built in
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