| 词条 | Abijah Thomas House |
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| nrhp_type = | designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register | designated_other1_date = September 16, 1980[1] | designated_other1_number = 086-0004 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | image = Octagon12_8_07.jpg| | caption = Picture taken on 12/7/07 | nearest_city= SW of Marion on VA 657, Marion, Virginia | coordinates = {{coord|36|46|27|N|81|34|13|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Virginia#USA | area = | built =1856 | architect= Thomas, Abijah | architecture= Octagon Mode | added = November 28, 1980 | governing_body = Private | refnum=80004225[2] }} The Abijah Thomas House is an historic octagon house located southwest of Marion, Virginia, United States, on VA 657. Built in 1856, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980. ArchitectureThe Abijah Thomas House is an octagon house, which is part of the trend of octagon architecture of 1850s America.[3] The building consists of seventeen rooms, ten closets, and a storage room. The exterior walls are made of brick, which were made by slaves on the property.[3] Interior design wise, the house features a rare example of painted ashlar upon plaster wall. Other interior touches include graining, marbleizing and stenciling.[4] HistoryThe house was completed in 1857,[6] for Abijah Thomas of Smyth County,[4] who was a property[4] and slave owner, and the owner of a textile plant.[5] The house and the property around it consisted of 400 acres, and was assessed at being worth $5,000 in 1857.[5] TodayThe house sat abandoned for many years and is currently owned by a local resident who seeks to renovate it back to its historical style. Ghosts have been reported as being seen on site, specifically in the home's storage room, called the "dark room," by locals.[3] Reports have claimed the appearance of abused slaves, including the sound of shackles moving and blood dripping down interior walls.[5] Despite local beliefs that slaves were abused within the "dark room," historian Mark Sturgill believes that stains on the floorboards of the storage room were caused by food spills from canned jars kept in the room, not from blood stains.[3] ImagesFurther reading
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archive-date=2013-09-21|dead-url=yes|df=}} 2. ^{{NRISref|2008a}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book|author1=Kimberly Barr Byrd|author2=Debra J. Williams|title=Smyth County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkpYozzuKnQC&pg=PA49|accessdate=15 April 2012|date=13 April 2005|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-1756-8|page=49}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|author=Virginia. Dept. of Historic Resources|title=The Virginia Landmarks Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJa_64aH1iMC&pg=PA493|accessdate=15 April 2012|date=1 January 2000|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-1862-4|page=493}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|author1=Jeff Bahr|author2=Troy Taylor|author3=Loren Coleman|author4=Mark Sceurman|author5=Mark Moran|title=Weird Virginia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPM0nENJc_4C&pg=PA60|accessdate=15 April 2012|date=1 June 2007|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4027-3942-2|page=60}} External links{{Commons category|Abijah Thomas House}}
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