John Marshall Warwick House 4
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John Marshall Warwick (1799-1878) was a prosperous Lynchburg, Virginia tobacco merchant and once mayor (1833). He built this structure in 1826, an example of the transition from Federal-style to Greek-Revival architecture. The architect is thought to be John Willis, a local lawyer and part-time architect, whose own home (now known as the Carter-Glass House) was built 1827 and featured the same recessed panels that highlight the front façade of the Warwick house. He had the responsibility of rearing his grandson, John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) who was a Civil War hero, a U. S. Senator and an orator. With the Civil War, John Warwick’s fortunes declined, and he lived in other housing for many years before his death. The house passed from family hands in 1879 then back into the family in 1909 when the home was bought by Don P. Halsey, Jr., great-grandson of John Marshall Warwick. In 1945 it passed out of the Halsey family. In 1975 Luther Caudill, Jr. owned the building and is credited with saving it from being demolished and in renovating the structure. At times the house was used as an office/apartment building. Today it houses Warwick House Publishing, book publisher. warwickpublishers.com/
The house is in excellent physical condition. It measures 43’x33’ and has 3-bays and 2-stories set on a raised basement. It is brick, laid in Flemish bond. The low-hipped metal-clad roof was once hidden from street-level by a balustrade above the cornice, which contains a row of dentil (not very visible in the photos). There are 4 interior chimneys, 2 on each side of the structure. The 6/6 double-hung sash windows have the original sashes and louvered shutters. In the center, just above the porch roof is a jib window. All the windows have thin sills and lintels of marble, the lintels ornamented with rosettes in the corners. An addition later in the 19th century is the wooden porch with the flat roof supported by square columns and pilasters with bases and caps and additional caps 3/4th up the height of each. Typical late 19th century scrollwork with cut-outs is seen in the column brackets; more conventional brackets in the cornice support the roof as well. Leading to the porch are stone steps and curvilinear iron balusters; these are likely the originals. The entrance is double-leaf two-panel door with colonettes to each side. A single pane rectangular transom with a cornice crowns the entryway. The side elevations have centered paired windows on each level with an additional 1st-level window near the rear. The original kitchen is in the basement and still has its cooking fireplace. Other structures on the property have been lost to time (laundry, carriage house, etc.) The major architectural embellishments are the ornamented recessed panels between the first and second stories with a swag and ribbon motif with a centered rosette. This particular ornamental feature is not common in Virginia; in 1988 molds of these panels were used in replacing those missing on the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond. The John Marshall Warwick House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) December 6, 1996, ID #96001449
The final NRHP nomination form is at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources website and includes much information on the interior of the structure.
www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/118-0019_...
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John Marshall Warwick House 4
[There are 10 images in this set on the John Marshall Warwick House] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.
John Marshall Warwick (1799-1878) was a prosperous Lynchburg, Virginia tobacco merchant and once mayor (1833). He built this structure in 1826, an example of the transition from Federal-style to Greek-Revival architecture. The architect is thought to be John Willis, a local lawyer and part-time architect, whose own home (now known as the Carter-Glass House) was built 1827 and featured the same recessed panels that highlight the front façade of the Warwick house. He had the responsibility of rearing his grandson, John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) who was a Civil War hero, a U. S. Senator and an orator. With the Civil War, John Warwick’s fortunes declined, and he lived in other housing for many years before his death. The house passed from family hands in 1879 then back into the family in 1909 when the home was bought by Don P. Halsey, Jr., great-grandson of John Marshall Warwick. In 1945 it passed out of the Halsey family. In 1975 Luther Caudill, Jr. owned the building and is credited with saving it from being demolished and in renovating the structure. At times the house was used as an office/apartment building. Today it houses Warwick House Publishing, book publisher. warwickpublishers.com/
The house is in excellent physical condition. It measures 43’x33’ and has 3-bays and 2-stories set on a raised basement. It is brick, laid in Flemish bond. The low-hipped metal-clad roof was once hidden from street-level by a balustrade above the cornice, which contains a row of dentil (not very visible in the photos). There are 4 interior chimneys, 2 on each side of the structure. The 6/6 double-hung sash windows have the original sashes and louvered shutters. In the center, just above the porch roof is a jib window. All the windows have thin sills and lintels of marble, the lintels ornamented with rosettes in the corners. An addition later in the 19th century is the wooden porch with the flat roof supported by square columns and pilasters with bases and caps and additional caps 3/4th up the height of each. Typical late 19th century scrollwork with cut-outs is seen in the column brackets; more conventional brackets in the cornice support the roof as well. Leading to the porch are stone steps and curvilinear iron balusters; these are likely the originals. The entrance is double-leaf two-panel door with colonettes to each side. A single pane rectangular transom with a cornice crowns the entryway. The side elevations have centered paired windows on each level with an additional 1st-level window near the rear. The original kitchen is in the basement and still has its cooking fireplace. Other structures on the property have been lost to time (laundry, carriage house, etc.) The major architectural embellishments are the ornamented recessed panels between the first and second stories with a swag and ribbon motif with a centered rosette. This particular ornamental feature is not common in Virginia; in 1988 molds of these panels were used in replacing those missing on the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond. The John Marshall Warwick House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) December 6, 1996, ID #96001449
The final NRHP nomination form is at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources website and includes much information on the interior of the structure.
www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/118-0019_...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.