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The '''Jones Law Office''' |
The '''Jones Law Office''', as a [[contributing property]] within the [[Appomattox Court House National Historical Park]], was registered in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on June 26, 1989.<ref name="sweeney1"> {{cite web|url= http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=VA&PARK=APCO&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=34|title= Jones Law Office|accessdate= 2009-01-21}}</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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== Historical significance == |
== Historical significance == |
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The [[National Park Service]] restored it in 1963. It has meaningful value because of its association with the site of General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to General [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. It also preserves the distinctive characteristics as embodying the period and method of construction typical in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered typical of a county government seat of that time period and of a farming community in Virginia |
The [[National Park Service]] restored it in 1963. It has meaningful value because of its association with the site of General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to General [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. It also preserves the distinctive characteristics as embodying the period and method of construction typical in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered typical of a county government seat of that time period and of a farming community in Virginia.<ref name="sweeney1"/> |
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== Description == |
== Description == |
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The Jones Law Office (a.k.a. Lorenzo D. Kelly house) is a single story structure furnished on the first floor as a simple home of a mid-nineteenth century craftsman. It has a centered entry door with a single window on the side. The building is one room deep and is of post and beam construction. The house comes with a full attic and a raised cellar. It is about twenty one and a half feet wide and seventeen and a half feet deep. The west side elevation is centered with an end gable exterior sandstone chimney. It has an enclosed cellar entry with a shed roof. |
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<ref name="nrhpinv2"> {{citation|title={{PDFlink|[http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/66000827.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration: Appomattox Court House / Appomattox Court House National Historical Park]|32 KB}}|date=Undated |author=Author not noted |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{PDFlink|[http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/66000827.pdf ''Accompanying 12 photos, undated'']|32 KB}} (Incomplete copy, lacking author and date)</ref> |
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The typical single residence one story pedimented house has an entry porch at the center entry. It is sheathed in unpainted weatherboards with five to five and a half inch exposure. The gable roof is covered with round-butt wood shingles with box cornice and crown moulding at the eaves and simple rake with ogee moulding at the gable ends. The first floor windows are 6/6 double hung sash without shutters. A similar 6/9 double hung sash window is on the principal floor. The attic story on the gable ends has four-light upward-swinging casement sash. The basement sash are four-light hoppers.<ref name="nrhpinv2"/> |
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The rear door on the south side has a centered four-paneled door providing to the first floor and another pair of cellar casements of three light. |
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The Jones Law Office (a.k.a. Lorenzo D. Kelly house) is a single story structure furnished on the first floor as a simple home of a mid-nineteenth century craftsman. It has a centered entry door with a single window on the side. The building is one room deep and is of post and beam construction. The house comes with a full attic and a raised cellar. It is about twenty one and a half feet wide and seventeen and a half feet deep. The west side elevation is centered with an end gable exterior sandstone chimney. It has an enclosed cellar entry with a shed roof. The typical single residence one story pedimented house has an entry porch at the center entry. It is sheathed in unpainted weatherboards. The gable roof is covered with round-butt wood shingles with box cornice and crown moulding at the eaves and simple rake with ogee moulding at the gable ends. The first floor windows are 6/6 DH without shutters. The attic story on the gable ends has four-light casement sash. The basement sash are four-light hoppers.<ref name="nrhpinv2">{{citation|title={{PDFlink|[http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/66000827.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration: Appomattox Court House / Appomattox Court House National Historical Park]|32 KB}}|date=Undated |author=Author not noted |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{PDFlink|[http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/66000827.pdf ''Accompanying 12 photos, undated'']|32 KB}} (Incomplete copy, lacking author and date)</ref> |
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The front entrance on the north side has has a porch with facing pediment covered in clapboards with two six-inch square posts and two six foot by three inch [[pilaster]]s, simple one foot by three-quarter inch [[baluster]]s. It has a heavy rounded rail on the side only and four riser steps. Flanking the porch to the west is a 6/9 sash window. All the windows do not have shutters. The interior has been restored and has little integrity. The structure exterior was restored in 1963.<ref name="nrhpinv2"/> |
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== Interior == |
== Interior == |
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| Location | Appomattox, Virginia |
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| Built | 1845-1860 |
| Architectural style | Single family house |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000827 |
| Added to NRHP | June 26, 1989 |
The Jones Law Office, as a contributing property within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, was registered in the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 1989.[1]
History
The Jones Law Office was originally constructed about 1850 (c. 1845 to 1860) for the law office and village home of Crawford Jones, Appomattox county farmer, attorney, and local secessionist leader. Early in 1854 he began sending one of his slaves into the village to purchase cotton handkerchiefs and cakes of "Yankie" soap, which lead to investigating getting a place closer to the "court house" for an office.[2]
In his book A Place Called Appomattox,[3] historian William Marvel describes history of the building as follows:
Until recently Jones, who was only twenty-three, had made his home on the family plantation out in the Walker's Church District; that was miles from the courthouse, and with the cheap rents McDearmon was asking there was no reason not to keep a little office (in the village). [4]
Later in his book Marvel[5] describes further history of the building showing the distressing financial situation of the owner:
Eventually Crawford Jones and John Woodson also took advantage of McDearmon's plight, and by the end of 1855 both of them owned their office lots.[6]
Crawford Jones
Jones made his home at his family's plantation several miles from the village of Appomattox Court House (then known also as Clover Hill). His family's plantation was in an area called Walker's Church District. In 1850 the senior David C. Jones had 19 slaves. The younger Crawford Jones had 5 slaves as of 1860 when he was 29 years old. While he was an attorney after his father's death, along with his mother, they owned several slaves.[7] The 1850 Census records show his father's name as David Crawford Jones and as 48 years old. He then had eight children living at the family plantation, with one daughter married and her husband and one year old son living there also. The younger Crawford Jones died in the summer of 1863, leaving his wife, Elizabeth, with the law office he owned in the village of Appomattox Court House.[8]
Lorenzo D. Kelly
The Jones Law Office also has the name of the Lorenzo D. Kelly house.[1] The U.S. Census for the year of 1850 for Appomattox County (sheet No: 166B) shows Lorenzo as a wheelwright. He is the first born at the age of 28, with five siblings, living at home with his parents Neal C. Kelly and Elizabeth Kelly. In 1860 he is living at the Jones Law Office structure, with his widowed mother (age 55), two of his younger siblings, and his grandmother (85 years old). The little structure was located a little more than a hundred yards away from the Bocock-Isbell house behind the Clover Hill Tavern out on the Richmond-Lynchburg stage road.[9] The obscure house would have hardly been noticed by any passerby of the time.[10]
John Robertson (Robinson)
Around 1867 John Robertson (a black shoemaker) and his wife lived in the building with a family of three children.[11] In November of 1869 there was a fourth child added to the Robertson family, all living in this one-room building in the village of Appomattox Court House.[11] In 1871 the property went back to the county for back taxes. John Robinson and his wife are buried in a small graveyard behind the house.[12]
Historical significance
The National Park Service restored it in 1963. It has meaningful value because of its association with the site of General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant. It also preserves the distinctive characteristics as embodying the period and method of construction typical in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered typical of a county government seat of that time period and of a farming community in Virginia.[1]
Description
The Jones Law Office (a.k.a. Lorenzo D. Kelly house) is a single story structure furnished on the first floor as a simple home of a mid-nineteenth century craftsman. It has a centered entry door with a single window on the side. The building is one room deep and is of post and beam construction. The house comes with a full attic and a raised cellar. It is about twenty one and a half feet wide and seventeen and a half feet deep. The west side elevation is centered with an end gable exterior sandstone chimney. It has an enclosed cellar entry with a shed roof. [13]
The typical single residence one story pedimented house has an entry porch at the center entry. It is sheathed in unpainted weatherboards with five to five and a half inch exposure. The gable roof is covered with round-butt wood shingles with box cornice and crown moulding at the eaves and simple rake with ogee moulding at the gable ends. The first floor windows are 6/6 double hung sash without shutters. A similar 6/9 double hung sash window is on the principal floor. The attic story on the gable ends has four-light upward-swinging casement sash. The basement sash are four-light hoppers.[13]
The rear door on the south side has a centered four-paneled door providing to the first floor and another pair of cellar casements of three light. The front entrance on the north side has has a porch with facing pediment covered in clapboards with two six-inch square posts and two six foot by three inch pilasters, simple one foot by three-quarter inch balusters. It has a heavy rounded rail on the side only and four riser steps. Flanking the porch to the west is a 6/9 sash window. All the windows do not have shutters. The interior has been restored and has little integrity. The structure exterior was restored in 1963.[13]
Interior
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Sleeping quarters
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "Jones Law Office". Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ NPS, Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, p. 119
- ^ "Book Review: A Place Called Appomattox (by William Marvel)". Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 39
- ^ "William Marvel bio". Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 47
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 39-57
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 186
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 79
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 74
- ^ a b Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 302
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, p. 305
- ^ a b c Author not noted (Undated), Template:PDFlink, National Park Service
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Sources
- Featherston, Nathaniel Ragland, Appomattox County History and Genealogy, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998, ISBN 0-8063476-0-0
- 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
- National Park Service, Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2002, ISBN 0-9126277-0-0