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The Bocock-Isbell House is part of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park which is identified as structure number 13. The Bocock-Isbell House was constructed in 1855. It was restored in 1948 to 1949 and preserved in 1992 to 1993. Work was done on it again to stabilize it in 1995 and again it was preserved in 1999.[1]
The Bocock-Isbell House has significance by virtue of its association with the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant of the American Civil War. It was constructed in 1849 to 1850 by Thomas S. Bocock and Henry F. Bocock, brothers. Thomas was a member of the United States Congress and Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives. At the time Henry was Clerk of the Court for Appomattox County. Lewis D. Isbell was Appomattox County Commonwealth Attorney during the American Civil War (Judge later) and occupied the house at the time General Robert E. Lee's surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.[1]
The Bocock-Isbell House is significant because of its distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction during the nineteenth century in rural Virginia. The buildings and resources constitute a holistic landscape typical of both a county government seat in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century and of a farming community in Virginia.
Description
The Bocock-Isbell House is much like the Peers house. It is a three bay, two story structure. The Bocock-Isbell House is nineteen feet wide by fifty feet deep. The construction is of post and beam with raised basement of brick laid in common bond. The gable roof is covered with wood shingles. The house frame is sheathed by weatherboards. The southeasy closet extension with a shed roof, two and a half feet by sisx and a half feet.[1]
The north (entrance) porch is with a flat roof of nearly fifteen feet by ten and a half feet. The south porch is with a tin shed roof twenty feet by ten and a half feet. Both porches are on brick piers. The exterior of the house is restored and the interior is reconstructed. The first, second and basement windows are 6/6 DH. The first and second floor windows have shutters. The north facade entry door is a wood door with four raised panels, above is a fifteen light transom.[1]
See also
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d "Bocock-Isbell House". Retrieved 2009-01-21.
Sources
- Gutek, Patricia, Plantations and Outdoor Museums in America's Historic South, University of South Carolina Press, 1996, ISBN 1-5700307-1-5
- Marvel, William, A Place Called Appomattox, UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8078256-8-9
- Marvel, William, Lee's Last Retreat, UNC Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8078570-3-3