Huntley: A Mason Family Country House

by Tony P. Wrenn

A Mason Family Country House

By
Tony P. Wrenn

Published by the Fairfax County Division of Planning
under the direction of the County Board of Supervisors
in cooperation with the County History Commission
Fairfax, Virginia
November 1971

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-183058
Typography by ARVA Printers, Inc.
Printing by ARVA Printers, Inc.
Additional copies available for $1.50 from
Administrative Services, Massey Building

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
		Page
List of Illustrations		[v]
Preface		[vi]
Acknowledgments		[vii]
Introduction		[1]
Chapter I.	The Mason Family	[3]
	Thomson Francis Mason	[3]
Chapter II.	Huntley and Its Owners	[9]
	Location and Site	[9]
	Origin of Name	[9]
	Owners and Occupants	[10]
	Mason ownership	[10]
	King ownership	[13]
	Harrison-Pierson ownership	[15]
	Harrison ownership	[17]
	Later owners	[23]
Chapter III.	An Architectural Description	[27]
	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 Icehouse	[35]
	The Root Cellar	[35]
	Dairy and Springs	[37]
	Early Structures No Longer Standing	[37]
Chapter IV.	The Architect of Huntley	[41]
	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	[50]
Appendix B	Chain of Title	[53]
List of Sources		[55]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure		Page
1.	Huntley, viewed from southwest, including root cellar and necessary, 1969	[viii]
2.	Huntley house and barn complex, viewed from south, 1947	[8]
3.	Detail, Map of Eastern Virginia and Vicinity of Washington, 1862	[12]
4.	Plat of Huntley division, 1868	[14]
5.	Detail, Hopkins, Atlas of Fifteen Miles around Washington, 1879	[18]
6.	Rear facade, c. 1890	[19]
7.	Rear facade, c. 1900	[20]
8.	Hindenburg disaster, Lakehurst, New Jersey	[22]
9.	Front view, 1969	[26]
10.	Rear view, 1969	[26]
11.	Mantel, central first floor room, 1969	[28]
12.	Mantel, north room first floor, 1969	[28]
13.	Detail, exterior door, north facade, 1969	[30]
14.	Detail, interior of entrance door, south facade, 1969	[30]
15.	Detail, window and door, central first floor room, 1969	[30]
16.	Necessary and tenant house from the icehouse, 1969	[32]
17.	Necessary, rear or west facade, 1969	[32]
18.	Necessary, door detail, 1969	[34]
19.	Necessary, interior detail, 1969	[34]
20.	Icehouse, detail, dome and opening, 1969	[36]
21.	Icehouse door to root cellar, 1969	[36]
22.	Root cellar entrance to icehouse, 1969	[36]
23.	Dairy and spring house, viewed from southeast, 1969	[38]
24.	Architect George Hadfield's ground plan exhibit at Royal Academy, 1780-82	[40]
25.	Hadfield's design, bed chamber story plan	[40]
26.	Arlington House (Custis-Lee Mansion) showing portico designed by Hadfield	[44]
27.	Analostan, now demolished, possibly Hadfield designed	[44]
28.	Front elevation, Huntley, 1946	[47]
29.	Rear elevation, Huntley, 1946	[48]
30.	Basement floor plan, 1946	[48]
31.	First floor plan, 1946	[49]
32.	Second floor plan, 1946	[49]

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