MacCallum More and Hudgins House Historic District is a pair of historic homes and national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Chase City
Chase City is a town in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States. Chase City was incorporated in 1873 and named for Salmon P. Chase, United States Chief Justice and Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury. The population was 2,351 at the 2010 censu ...
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Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Mecklenburg County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,319. Its county seat is Boydton.
History
Mecklenburg County was organized on March 1, 1765, having split from Lunenburg County in 1 ...
. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site They include the Hudqins-Rutledqe House built in 1910. The house is a two-story, frame dwelling with a symmetrical two-bay façade that combines
Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...
and Neoclassical elements. MacCallum More was designed by noted Richmond architect
Carl M. Lindner and built in 1929. It is Colonial Revival in style with a three-bay, symmetrical façade and a side gable roof. It has a two-story central block flanked by one-story wings. Associated with it is a -story, Guest Cottage built about 1941. The houses are located in landscaped gardens designed by
Charles Gillette
Charles Freeman Gillette (1886–1969) was a prominent landscape architect in the upper South who specialized in the creation of grounds supporting Colonial Revival architecture, particularly in Richmond, Virginia. He is associated with the rest ...
in 1927.
The property includes the MacCallum More Museum and Gardens.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2010.[
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References
External links
MacCallum More Museum and Gardens
- official site
Museums in Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1910
Houses completed in 1929
Houses in Mecklenburg County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Historic house museums in Virginia
Gardens in Virginia
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