C.P. Jones House and Law Office
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C.P. Jones House and Law Office | |
.jpg) C.P. Jones House | |
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| Location | 144 & 160 W. Main St., Monterey, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°24′48″N 79°34′55″W / 38.41333°N 79.58194°W |
| Area | 0.634 acres (0.257 ha) |
| Built | c. 1850, c. 1873 |
| Architect | Wilson, William E. |
| Architectural style | Folk Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 13000989[1] |
| VLR No. | 262-5001 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 24, 2013 |
| Designated VLR | September 19, 2013[2] |
C.P. Jones House and Law Office, also known as the Jones-McCoy House, Almond-Strickler House, and James Bell House, is a historic home and law office located at Monterey, Highland County, Virginia. The original section of the house dates to about 1850. Originally the house was a two-story, five-bay, side-gabled, four-room log building on a stone foundation. Several rooms and porches were added between the middle of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and has a Folk Victorian style. The law office was built about 1873, and is a one-story, front-gable, frame building. Also on the property are the contributing two-story, side-gabled garage/smoke house/woodshed, a one-story, front-gabled apple shed/cellar, a one-story brick spring house ruin. It was the home of American soldier and politician Charles Pinckney Jones (1845–1914).[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[1]
The original building was constructed ca. 1850 as a two-room-up and two-room-down log dwelling with a gable roof. Brick chimneys are located on the exterior of the east and west ends of the main building. During the latter part of the 19th century, several additions were added to accommodate the growing Jones family. At that time the exterior chimney on the east end of the log dwelling was concealed in the construction of additional rooms at that end of the house. A rear ell addition was added to the north side of the house as well. At the same time that those additions were put on, weatherboard siding and ornamental trim were added. The siding was whitewashed and the shutters were painted green. A formal, two-story porch was added and it included such ornamentation as square support brackets, a cutout balustrade, and a projecting gable at the center of the porch over the second-story door. The house now stands as a two-story vernacular dwelling with Victorian-era trim. Although vinyl siding has more recently been added covering the wooden siding, the ornamental returned eaves, bracketed cornice, and fascia boards are still exposed. Standing-seam metal covers the roof. The south façade features five bays consisting of two symmetrically spaced windows to either side of a central entry on the first and second stories. The tall windows feature two-over-two wood sash. The first-story entrance is highlighted by multiple-pane sidelights and a rectangular transom.[4]
