Virginia

Edward Dromgoole House, Brunswick Co, Virginia (36.579373, -77.820030)

Felling Dates: Summer 1796 Summer 1797 Winter 1797/8 Winter 1798/9

Site Master 1649-1798 (yellow pine) DGVAx1 (t = 12.52 VANC2018; 10.06 rgo2; 9.95 CPZ7x).

Located just north of the border with North Carolina in Brunswick County, Virginia, the Dromgoole House is a two-story, double-pile frame dwelling built at the end of the eighteenth century. Erected on stone foundations with a cellar beneath, the house measures approximately 35 feet in length and 28 feet 8 inches deep. There is a small one-story, early nineteenth-century, one-room wing attached to the back of the east gable end of the original house. The four bay south front of the main house consists of two large heated rooms, each entered by a separate door from an exterior porch (now enclosed). The two Flemish bond chimneys that heat these rooms are slightly offset to one another with the one heating the slightly larger west room (17 feet 6 inches square) set further back toward the north than the other, which heats the smaller (15 feet 6 inch by 17 feet 6 inch deep) east room. These rooms have flat panel wainscoting, simple mantles, and double architraves composed of Roman moldings. In the center of the partition that separates these two rooms is a six-panel door hung with HL hinges. Two windows light each of the rooms—one on each of the gable end and another on the front wall. (Carl Lounsbury 2018)

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2018 “The Tree-Ring Dating of Edward Dromgoole House, Brunswick Co, Virginia,” unpublished laboratory archive report 2018/08

Link to the The Old Brunswick Circuit Foundation page for Edward Dromgoole House here

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