McIntire House

McIntire House (1848 to

The McIntire House was built about 1848 by George M. McIntire, a druggist and mayor of Charlottesville during the Civil War.

This is one of the houses which was thoroughly searched for food during the occupation of the town by northern troops in the spring of 1865, even a school girl's trunk being emptied. Boyhood home of Paul Goodloe McIntire who was later acknowledged as one of the great benefactors of the City of Charlottesville. The house was pulled down to make way for the Hughes Esso Filling Station (later the Tarleton Oak Gasoline Station), corner of E. High and 9th Streets (815 E High Street).

A superb black oak in the yard, long known as the McIntire Oak, become erroneously associated with Tarleton's raid. According to tradition, British lieutenant colonel Banastre Tarleton camped under this tree when he was in pursuit of Governor Thomas Jefferson. Tarleton came to Charlottesville on the night of June 3–4, 1781. The Tarleton's Oak, a centerpiece of the Charlottesville landscape and source of local folklore, was felled on May 24, 1997; a cutting was later planted near the site of the "mother tree".