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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
View photos from this survey. (Some may not be online).
Manse, Frederick & Coalter Streets, Staunton, Staunton, VA
- Title: Manse, Frederick & Coalter Streets, Staunton, Staunton, VA
- Other Title: Woodrow Wilson Birthplace
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
T. J. Collins & Son
Wilson, Woodrow , owner
Collins, S J , photographer
Boucher, Jack E , photographer
Bagby, W Harry , photographer
Stern, Philip N , historian
Collins, S J , field team supervisor
Eskridge, Fred A , field team
Collins, Harry S , field team - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1
Measured Drawing(s): 8
Data Page(s): 4
Photo Caption Page(s): 1 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS VA,8-STAU,2-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: The two-story building with its portico, low, hipped roof and interior end chimneys is representative of houses constructed in the Greek Revival style throughout the Shenandoah Valley. The Manse ws designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. As summarized by the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum: In January 1846, church session minutes record an appropriation for building the manse. Mrs. Smith's father, the Reverend James Morrison of Rockbridge County, Virginia wrote, "The congregation has contracted to have a house built for Mr. Smith, which it is said will be the best house in Staunton when it is finished. The lot on which it is to be built is one of the most beautiful situations in Staunton. . ." The ladies of the church held a fair in June 1846 and raised $300 to pay the balance on purchase of the building lot. The handsome Manse erected on the lot may have been designed by the Reverend Rufus W. Bailey, founder of Augusta Female Seminary in 1842 (now Mary Baldwin College), and designer of its classical main building (1844), for he served on the church's building committee. The manse and the college's old building are strikingly similar in style. Builder of the manse was John Fifer of Augusta County. Church records indicate that the total cost of constructing the 12-room Greek Revival style brick house with its center halls and four chimneys was about $4,000. In December 1854, the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a professor at Hampden-Sydney College, accepted a call to be pastor of Staunton Presbyterian Church. Mr. Wilson, his wife, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, and their daughters Marion and Annie moved into the Staunton manse in March 1855. One year and nine months later on December 28, 1856 the third Wilson child was born "at 12¾ o'clock at night" as his proud father recorded in the family Bible. The child was named Thomas Woodrow Wilson for his maternal grandfather. Only four ministers' families occupied the manse following the Wilson family. To cover debts from construction of a new church, the Presbyterian trustees sold two sections of the large lot surrounding the manse in 1874. Following President Wilson's death in 1924, the trustees of Mary Baldwin College determined to raise funds for a memorial building to the President. The congregation of First Presbyterian Church gave its approval in 1925 to the sale of the manse to the college for $30,000 and the college held it until a group could be formed to preserve and interpret the home as a Birthplace museum for the late President of the United States. The Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation was established in 1938. The first restoration of the manse started in 1940 and was completed in 1941 bringing the Presbyterian Manse back to its appearance of 1856 when Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born. In May 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to Staunton to dedicate the restored Woodrow Wilson Birthplace as a "shrine to freedom."
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5
- Survey number: HABS VA-11-9
- Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1897 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000926
- Subjects:
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- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS VA,8-STAU,2-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1
Measured Drawing(s): 8
Data Page(s): 4
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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- Call Number: HABS VA,8-STAU,2-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 1
Measured Drawing(s): 8
Data Page(s): 4
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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