Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1919/00/00 | W Duncan Lee | Architect | Designed by Duncan Lee, a robust version of the Tidewater Georgian style mansion is built for real estate operator and businessman Abram L McClellan. He will call his residence "Pinehurst". | |||
1938/00/00 | Douglas Southall Freeman | Home | Author and journalist, Dr Douglass Southall Freeman, acquires Pinehurst and renames it Westbourne. | |||
1940/00/00 | Charles F Gillette | Landscape Architect | Douglass Freeman hires landscape architect Charles F Gillette to design the grounds, however the gardens no longer exist as much of the original six acres has since been subdivided. The house and some of its immediate grounds have been restored. | |||
1953/06/13 | Douglas Southall Freeman | Died | Douglas Southall Freeman, retired editor of The Richmond News-Leader and a leading military historian, dies of a heart attack at his home in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of 67. |
Particulars for Westbourne: | |
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Architectural Style | American Colonial Revival |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Area of Significance | Literature |
Criteria | Person |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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