Manor Place

Manor Place

Manor Place State Historic Preservation Office, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, James E. Harding

Manor Place

1920s, Fred Crowther. South side of 1500 block of Virginia Ave., immediately east of 1529 Virginia Ave.

This charmingly narrow cul-de-sac contains only six small Tudor Revival houses, three on each side. Designs vary, but each has a one-andone-half-story and a two-story section, brick or stucco and half-timbered walls, and a red the roof. A sensitive composition of urban design, both in sum and in miniature, the group recalls an early-twentieth-century English garden suburb. Their small scale makes one think of them as “starter” houses and recalls the song lyric, “Just Molly and me, and baby makes three.” Crowther, a Charleston architect, designed similar but more expansive houses in South Hills.

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