Plan 32521WP - Historic Early Virginia Home Plan

• 2,976

  HEATED S.F.

• 4

  BEDS

• 4

  BATHS

• 2

  FLOORS

• 2

  CAR GARAGE

About this Plan

• Robert Nicholson, who would become one of Williamsburg's most prosperous tailors and merchants, began construction of this unique house in the early 1750s.
• He first built a small, neat frame dwelling featuring a side entryway.
• He later decided to double the size of his house by adding a west wing adjoining the house at the side passage, thereby making the side door the new center of the house.
• Proof of this transformation is the ever-so-slightly off-center doorway, a quaint feature that distinguishes many old homes that that have undergone alterations over the centuries.
• Many original elements of the Nicolson house remain virtually intact today: original heart pine flooring, panel wainscoting, turned stair balusters and finely molded dentils.
• Commodious, yet simple and unpretentious, this home is a premier example of early Virginia architecture.