This two-story Queen Anne frame house displays a variety of forms and textures to produce a rich composition. Anchoring one corner of the house is a dramatic round corner tower sheathed in patterned shingles and capped with a slate dome. A one-story porch with Doric columns runs across the facade and wraps around the tower. On the second story a one-bay porch framed by an elliptical arch carried on short Ionic columns is crowned by a bellcast roof.
Anne Carter Lee, "House", [South Boston, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-HX17.
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 355-355.
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