Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory - Virginia
a) West Wing Felling Dates: Winter 1822/23
b) East Wing Felling Dates: Winter 1822/23
c) Center Section Felling Dates: After 1799
Historic Huntley was constructed as a summerhouse by Thomson F. Mason, part of a prominent Virginia family of landholders. The structure is situated on a hilltop with the basement being set into the bank of the hillside. The three-story center section is flanked by two-story wings, giving the building an H-plan layout.
Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the east and west wings were built from timbers felled in the winter of 1822/23 and that the center block was built sometime after 1799.
Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2017 “The Tree-Ring Dating of Historic Huntley, Alexandria, Virginia”, unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2017/04
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