Virginia

Hill House Museum, Portsmouth, Virginia 36.838308, -76.298850

Primary House Felling Dates: Summer 1834, Winter 1830/1

Site Master 1716-1833 (yellow pine) HHMVx1 (t = 8.87 EASTNC; 8.40 warrenSI; 7.80 FSQx2).

The Hill House Museum is a four-story, Federal-style house located in the Olde Towne Historic District of Portsmouth, Virginia. Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1830/1 and the summer of 1834.

Worthington and Seiter 2023 "The Tree-Ring Dating of the Hill House Museum, Portsmouth, Virginia." Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory 2023/11.

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