Christmas Tour of Homes - Warrenton

122 South Bragg Street,Warrenton NC 27589

03 December, 2022

Description

Saturday, December 3 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m and Sunday, December 4 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Homes on the tour include: Green-Polk House - 1850 , William Ransom Johnson House - 1800, Marmaduke Johnson House - 1757 , William Eaton House - 1843, Dameron-Bunch House - 1924, Allen Building – 2nd floor apt – 1880s, Hendrick House - 1870s, Carter Williams House, The Ivy - 1903, Jacob Holt House - 1855, Renovated Town Hall - 1907, Emmanuel Episcopal Church - 1824. An example of one of the homes on the Christmas Tour of Homes in Warrenton, NC is the William Ransom Johnson House, c.1800. c. 1875. Located at the south end of Eaton Avenue, this house was constructed about 1800 as a one- or one-and-a-half-story Federal-style house, built for Colonial William R. Johnson. The house, though outside the town limits of Warrenton at that time, was “intimately connected with the traditions and life of Warrenton.” The house was enlarged to its current two-story hip-roof form in the late nineteenth century and was occupied by William Eaton, Jr. for whom the street is named. The three-bay house has a double-leaf one-light-over-two-panel door on the east end of the façade sheltered by a full-width, hip-roof porch. The porch is supported by fluted square columns with a turned balustrade. It retains plain weatherboards, nine-over-nine wood-sash windows at the first story, and six-over-six windows at the second story. A gabled dormer was removed from the façade and the “deck” part of the roof replaced with a low hip roof after 1976. Two impressive stone chimneys are located on the west elevation of the house with a projecting shed-roofed bay between them. A one-story, hip-roof ell extends from the southwest. A one-story hip-roof wing on the east elevation has tall six-over-six windows with the panes arranged vertically. This wing also has a wide cornice and rear chimney. Mantels and woodwork documented in 1973 reflect its early nineteenth century construction and its later nineteenth century remodeling. Further, beaded weatherboards were visible at the time of the 1973 survey on a wall that had become an interior wall. The house is centered on the one-acre site, at the southern terminus of Eaton Avenue. A boxwood hedge flanks the front walk, furthering the vista from Eaton Avenue to the house. Low stone walls extend across the north side of the property and a circular drive extends around the rear of the house, accessing the three outbuildings on the property. Fence/Wall, c.1820 Contributing Structure A low stone wall extends across the north property line, along Eaton Avenue, with stone piers flanking the front walk. Office, c.1820 Contributing Building West of the house stands a one-story, hip-roof, frame office building. The east end of the building, a twentieth-century addition, has a concrete block foundation. The building has plain weatherboards six-over-six wood-sash windows, and a replacement brick chimney on the west elevation. The entrance appears to be on the south elevation, as it is not visible from the street. Shed, c.1930 Contributing Building South of the Office is a shed-roof, frame shed with plywood sheathing and open bays on the east elevation sheltered by a bracketed pent roof.