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The kitchen that predates the main house

The kitchen that predates the main house

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Kyle McLonely

A brick house in Lynchburg, Virginia, features a dependency that may date to 1861, a decade before the main house was completed.

Centerview is a two-story brick house in Lynchburg, Virginia, completed in 1871. It was built in the Greek Revival style.

The property includes a dependency that is a one-story gabled brick building. While the main house was completed in 1871, the dependency may date to 1861. It was similar in construction to the main house and originally served as a summer kitchen and cook's dwelling.

Robert Withers Morgan and his family were long residents of the house. One of his six children was the painter Georgia Weston Morgan, who resided there until 1923.

Today, the property serves a different purpose. The house and dependency were rehabilitated between 1999 and 2000 as law offices. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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