Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
Chatham |
Object ID |
2015.007.004 |
Description |
"Chatham," BW. Brick building, front porch has columns. Outside window shutters. White picket fence. Attached wood frame stucture to left side of building. Written on back: "Chatham," built in 1790 by General John West, a cousin of the Earl of Chatham passed into the hands of the Pitt and Downing familes and is now owned by the Thomas Family. The interior woodwork and fine constructure here are remarkable. It is at the Head of Church Neck in Northampton County, V., in a splendid grove of great oaks, cedar, sycamore and ashes. The original kitchen wing with the slave quarters is a ruin. |
Photographer |
Hunt, Margaret Lincoln |
Collection |
Photography Collection |
Place |
Machipongo, VA |
Search Terms |
Northampton County Historic House House Machipongo Chatham West Downing Thomas Pitts |
Subjects |
Houses |
Year Range from |
1927 |
Year Range to |
1929 |