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===Narrative from Virginia Landmarks Registry=== | ===Narrative from Virginia Landmarks Registry=== | ||
"This stately country house is noteworthy as an Albemarle County antebellum work with alterations by a designer well versed in the region’s classical idiom. It was erected in 1855-56 and enlarged and remodeled in 1907 by Washington, D. C. architect Waddy B. Wood. The original center section was first the home of Addison Maupin, keeper of one of the four “hotels,” or dining halls at the university in the 1850s. The most noted resident was U. S. Senator Thomas S. Martin, leader of Virginia’s powerful Democratic Party machine in the early 1900s. Purchased by the University of Virginia in 1963, the current name honors the Nobel Prize winning novelist William H. Faulkner, | "This stately country house is noteworthy as an Albemarle County antebellum work with alterations by a designer well versed in the region’s classical idiom. It was erected in 1855-56 and enlarged and remodeled in 1907 by Washington, D. C. architect Waddy B. Wood. The original center section was first the home of [[Addison Maupin]], keeper of one of the four “hotels,” or dining halls at the university in the 1850s. The most noted resident was U. S. Senator [[Thomas S. Martin]], leader of Virginia’s powerful Democratic Party machine in the early 1900s. Purchased by the University of Virginia in 1963, the current name honors the Nobel Prize winning novelist William H. Faulkner, who— though he never lived there— taught at the university in the 1950s. Since 1975 the house has been the headquarters of the White Burke [[Miller Center for Public Affairs]]." | ||
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Faulkner House is a mid 19th century structure in Albemarle County listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register. It was listed on the VLR on March 20, 1984 and the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1984. [1]
Narrative from Virginia Landmarks Registry
"This stately country house is noteworthy as an Albemarle County antebellum work with alterations by a designer well versed in the region’s classical idiom. It was erected in 1855-56 and enlarged and remodeled in 1907 by Washington, D. C. architect Waddy B. Wood. The original center section was first the home of Addison Maupin, keeper of one of the four “hotels,” or dining halls at the university in the 1850s. The most noted resident was U. S. Senator Thomas S. Martin, leader of Virginia’s powerful Democratic Party machine in the early 1900s. Purchased by the University of Virginia in 1963, the current name honors the Nobel Prize winning novelist William H. Faulkner, who— though he never lived there— taught at the university in the 1950s. Since 1975 the house has been the headquarters of the White Burke Miller Center for Public Affairs."
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References
- ↑ Web. 002-0146 Faulkner House, Virginia Landmarks Register, October 9, 2018, retrieved January 27, 2020.