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[[Image:P0006576 713ParkStreetjpg.jpg|right|thumb|300px|713 Park Street, c 2020]]
[[Image:713 Park Street JudgeWatsonHouse.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Judge Watson House]]
[[File:1850-Newfoundland Dog.JPG|thumb|Newfoundland dog. Engraved from JG Wood’s Illustrated Natural History (c 1850)]]
'''713 Park Street''', also referred to as the [[Judge Watson House]], is a historic structure situated on [[Park Street]] in the [[North Downtown]] neighborhood. Built by Judge [[Egbert R. Watson]] about [[1856]], and the family's home until his death in 1887. 
===Significance===
In 1861, Judge [[Egbert R. Watson]], who read law under [[James Monroe]]'s son-in-law Judge [[George Hay]] and was a personal friend of the former president, purchased 2 3/10 acres from [[Richard K. Mead]]. The lot was off the southern side of his Meadlands estate. 1862 tax records show an assessment of $500.00 for improvements on Watson's property. In that same year an addition was constructed on the west side of the house.   

''Civil War''  

During the occupancy of the town by Union troops a northern colonel and his orderly were quartered here. Both conducted themselves with much consideration, and the officer, at Judge Watson's request, stationed guards at a number of houses occupied by unprotected women. A handsome Newfoundland dog, which had been the Colonel's companion throughout the war, strayed back to this home about a week after the troops had left. Judge Watson sent a letter through the lines to the Colonel telling of its whereabouts, and immediately after the surrender at Appomattox the orderly came for it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2006_01/uvaBook/tei/b000239102.xml;chunk.id=d6;toc.depth=100;brand=default;query=Peter%20U.%20Ware|title=EARLY CHARLOTTESVILLE Recollections of JAMES ALEXANDER 1828-1874|last=JAMES ALEXANDER Edited by Mary Rawlings, page 45|publisher=Reprinted from the Jeffersonian Republican by the Albemarle County Historical Society (1942)}}</ref>  

''Transfer of ownership''  

Judge Watson's heirs conveyed the property to George Rives in 1887. Upon George Rives' death in 1903, the house passed to his widow Sallie. It became the Christ Episcopal Church (599 Park Street) rectory in 1919. In 1971, the Trustees of Christ Episcopal Church sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. William Isaccs for $38,000.<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/va1078/</ref>  The Romberger Corporation purchased the house for $876,500.00 in 2006. 2018 City tax records show an assessment value of the improvements at $741,900, with a total value of $1,025,700.00 for the land and improvements.  

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