Ossian Hall was an 18th-century plantation house in Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia. Ossian Hall was one of three large residences, along with Oak Hill, and Ravensworth, owned by the Fitzhugh family in Fairfax County.
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Location
editOssian Hall was located north of Braddock Road and east of the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495).[1]
History
editOssian Hall was built on the Ravensworth land grant by Nicholas Fitzhugh, son of Henry Fitzhugh. In 1804, Dr. David Stuart, a commissioner for the Federal City, purchased Ossian Hall and relocated there with his wife, Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, and their children.
Francis Asbury Dickins, a Washington attorney and son of Secretary of the United States Senate Asbury Dickins, used the home as a summer residence until the outbreak of the Civil War, when it became his year-round residence.[2] All three of the Fitzhugh estates were protected by orders from both sides throughout the war.[3]
Joseph L. Bristow, an American politician from Kansas, purchased Ossian Hall in 1918 and died there on July 14, 1944.
On September 3, 1959, Ossian Hall was burned as a training exercise for the Annandale Fire Department.[3]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Ossian Hall (historical) Fairfax County". VA HomeTownLocator. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008.
- ^ "Annandale History at Ossian Hall Historic Home". annandalechamber.com. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ a b "History of Annandale". annandale.va.us. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
External links
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Media related to Ossian Hall at Wikimedia Commons- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. VA-598, "Ossian Hall, 5001 Regina Drive, Annandale, Fairfax County, VA", 11 photos, 11 measured drawings, supplemental material
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