Huntley: A Mason Family Country House

by Tony P. Wrenn

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-183058
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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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