Waterford Real Estate, Waterford, Virginia - The Village, The Houses, The History

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Second Street
Through the end of the 18th century, Waterford continued to attract Quakers followed by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and German Lutherans. Waterford became a bustling commercial town, supporting and serving a prosperous quarter of rural Loudoun County. By 1762 the ethnic mix included African-Americans, some of them slaves, but others, especially after the turn of the century, were free blacks - a relative rarity elsewhere in Virginia.

By 1800, the town started moving out Second Street where today several good examples of Federal architecture still exist. The William Nettle House, the Doctor's House, Dormers and Old Acre.

[The properties pictured are representative of those in Waterford and are not necessarily for sale. Click on the photos to open a window with a larger photo.]

The William Nettle House
William Nettle, Waterford's first mayor and a master builder from Pennsylvania, completed this house in 1822. Nathan Walker (1802-1871) bought it in 1840 and it remained in the Walker family until 1921. This dwelling has a hall-parlor interior plan. The front door opens into the principal entertainment area, or hall, and a smaller private room, the parlor, adjoins the hall.

The Doctor's House
This is another house owned and probably built by William Nettle. He built the three-bay, two-story right side of this dwelling between 1818 and 1820. It remained in his family at least through 1875, when his widow Sarah owned the property. The smaller addition to the left, which served as a doctor's office for many years, was probably added around the turn of the century.

Dormers
Mahlon Janney's nephew and heir, Mahlon II (b.1773), is credited with constructing this house sometime after 1803. John Schooley and his son Milton lived here and operated the mill until the latter's death in 1908. The wings to either side of the house, a rear addition, the roof dormers, and the Colonial Revival door surround are not original to the house. The off-center door placement is rare in a 19th-century five-bay dwelling.

Old Acre
James Moore, Jr., probably constructed this house between 1815 and 1838, when he sold it to his nephew James Moore Steer (1810-1874). Steer and his brother-in-law Reuben Schooley operated a series of agricultural manufacturing shops behind the house along Factory Street, giving that street its name. Exterior brickwork indicates that the northern block of Old Acre was built before the southern end, which was originally a single story.

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