Huntley: A Mason Family Country House

Huntley, 6918 Harrison Lane, near Woodlawn Plantation, Fairfax County, Virginia, is currently owned by Colonel and Mrs. Ransom G. Amlong. It is located off the Jefferson Davis H...

Huntley, the mansion house, is of brick construction. The brick is laid in common, or American, bond, with five courses of stretchers to one of headers. Average brick size is ei...

The construction of Huntley was probably not supervised by an architect. There are too many imperfections for that. At the same time, it is too architectonic to have either evol...

The first George Mason came to Virginia during the middle of the seventeenth century.[3] Two other Georges followed before 1725, when the fourth George Mason, "The Pen of the Re...

[Footnote 73: Murray H. Nelligan, =Custis-Lee Mansion= (Washington: National Park Service, 1950), pp. 2-4, 6, 15, 24. The staff at Arlington House was also kind enough to allow...

The Architectural Plan 41 Area Architects, circa 1820 42 George Hadfield 42 Similarities to the Work of Hadfield 43 Summary 47 Appendix A Some Mason Houses in Northern Virginia...

1911--April 5, Liber J, No. 7, p. 22: CLARA B. HARRISON, UNMARRIED, MARY C. HARRISON, UNMARRIED, ALBERT R. HARRISON, UNMARRIED, _first part_, MARGARET N. HARRISON GIBBS AND HER...

[Footnote 19: Ann was not Mason's grandmother, but the first wife of his grandfather. Thomson was a favorite of Grandfather Chichester and he would have known of Ann Gordon. Mr....

=Alexandria Gazette=: November 24, 1817; March 13, 1823; August 5, 1828; November 1 & 8, 1833; May 16, 1837; December 27, 1838; August 30, 1839; June 12, 1862; October 12, 1864;...

[Footnote 3: Stevens Thompson Mason, =Mason Family Chart= (Baltimore: privately printed, 1907). All genealogical material is taken either from this chart or from Kate Mason Rowl...

[Footnote 51: All quotes in this section unless otherwise credited are from E. Blaine Cliver who visited the site with the author on November 11, 1969, and taped his comments. M...

_Okeley_, home of Richard Chichester Mason, brother of T.F. Mason. The structure was destroyed during the Civil War. It was located in Fairfax County on S. Kings Highway, just s...

The Dwelling or Mansion House 27 Room arrangement 27 Windows and doors 29 Interior features 29 Exterior features 31 The Tenant House 31 The Storage House and Necessary 33 The Ic...