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Loyalty Road
Virtual Walking Tour
15520 Loyalty
This one-and-a-half-story brick home was built about 1948.
This lot was part of a large tract once owned by Edwin Atlee
(c.1831-1880), a livestock dealer and justice of the peace
who owned most of the land surrounding Butchers Row in the
late 19th century. |
Echo Hill
This lot was also part of Atlee's large tract, and remained
unimproved until John William Vandevanter Virts (1849-1938)
built this Victorian-style frame house about 1890. The cross
gable at the center of the façade became a popular
motif during the Gothic Revival period; it expressed the
Gothic preoccupation with height. |
Fairfax Meetinghouse
Waterford's founding Quakers built their first meetinghouse
(of logs) on this site in 1741. They replaced it with a stone
structure in 1761; and ten years later doubled its size.
This building architecturally mirrors many Quaker meetinghouses
in Pennsylvania. It survived a disastrous fire in 1868 but
by 1929 Waterford's few remaining Quakers "laid down" their
meeting and joined the congregation at nearby Lincoln. Noted
architect Allen McDaniel converted the structure into a home
in 1939, an early example of adaptive use. |
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