The Oaks

The Oaks

The Oaks Virginia Department of Historic Resources
1893. 311 E. Main St.

Insurance agent and investor William H. Pierce built his substantial Queen Anne house on his marriage to Julia Baird. It is located on a spacious corner lot surrounded by oak trees in a neighborhood adjacent to the commercial downtown. Many of the houses here date from around the turn of the twentieth century. This asymmetrically massed, two-story frame house is sheathed in weatherboarding and shingles and features a conical-roofed corner tower, a polygonal wraparound porch, and a hipped roof with cross gables, one of which contains a stickwork wheel design. The house is now a bed-and-breakfast.

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