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Mann Street Houses

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c. 1850, 1870, 1880. 100–200 blocks of Mann St.
  • (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)

This trio of handsome dwellings forms an unusually sophisticated grouping for their rural setting. The Governor William Mann House (1870; 139 Mann) was built for Mann during his long tenure as judge of the Nottoway court preceding his term as governor of Virginia. His Italianate residence combines an elaborate two-story L-shaped frame house with a three-story tower. Single, double, and triple windows are set in a variety of rectangular, round-arched, and segmental-arched openings. Although diminished by the removal of balconies above the porch, bay window, and south side, the soaring house still manages to represent the aspirations of a future governor.

The two-story wooden Cummins House (c. 1850; 159 Mann) is more modest, embellished with decorative sawnwork and an entrance bay with an arched, pierced, and eared pediment on the roofline. The Dillemuth House (1880; 219 Mann) is a two-and-a-half-story frame building with the squared massing of Greek Revival but finished with Second Empire detailing, including a mansard roof with segmental-arched window heads, bracketed cornice, bay window, and a one-story bracketed porch.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Old Brick Presbyterian Church
Nottoway County Courthouse Complex
Old Nottoway County Library
Wilson House
Blackstone Conference and Retreat Center (Blackstone Female Institute, Blackstone College for Girls)

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Mann Street Houses", [Crewe, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-NW4.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 296-297.

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