Point_of_Honor,_Cabell_Street_between_A_and_B_Streets,_Lynchburg,_Lynchburg,_VA_HABS_VA,16-LYNBU,7-_(sheet_1_of_1).tif

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HABS VA,16-LYNBU,7- (sheet 1 of 1) - Point of Honor, Cabell Street between A and B Streets, Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA
Title
HABS VA,16-LYNBU,7- (sheet 1 of 1) - Point of Honor, Cabell Street between A and B Streets, Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA
Description
Cabell, George; Owen, Robert L, Sr; Virginia and Tennessee Railroad; City of Lynchburg; City of Lynchburg
Depicted place Virginia; Lynchburg; Lynchburg
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS VA,16-LYNBU,7- (sheet 1 of 1)
Credit line
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Notes
  • Significance: Point of Honor is a two-story, brick house with a three-bay center section flanked by octagonal ended projections. It is similar to the Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House in Richmond. Construction began in 1806 and the house was completed in 1815.

George Cabell is the best known resident of Point of Honor. Cabell was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and the surgeon to Patrick Henry. Today the property is owned by the City of Lynchburg.

  • Survey number: HABS VA-311
  • Building/structure dates: 1806 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va0292.sheet.00001a
Permission
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