Robert Nicolson House
Robert Nicholson, who would become one of the towns most prosperous tailors and merchants, began construction of this unique house in the early 1750s. He first built a small, neat frame dwelling featuring a side entryway. He later decided to double the size of his house by adding a west wing adjoining the house at the side passage, thereby making the side door the new center of the house. Proof of this transformation is the ever-so-slightly off-center doorway, a quaint feature that distinguishes many old homes that that have undergone alterations over the centuries. Many original elements of the Nicolson house remain virtually intact today: original heart pine flooring, panel wainscoting, turned stair balusters and finely molded dentils. Commodious yet simple and unpretentious this home is a premier example of early Virginia architecture.
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