c. 1760, c. 1840, addition. 1930–1931, restoration. Nicholson St. and N. England St.
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(Photograph by Jeffrey E. Klee, courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) -
Privy, smokehouse and dairy (Photograph by Jeffrey E. Klee, courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
In 1768, the widow Grissell Hay advertised this carefully ordered, frame Georgian-plan house facing Market Square as offering “very commodious lodgings to be let for a dozen gentlemen.” Its size and regularity suggest a 1760s date, though both archaeological excavations and dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, appear to support the long-held belief that it is an early eighteenth-century house. The porch is a Greek Revival addition, and the four rear outbuildings date from the late eighteenth and