COLONIAL
Cole Digges House
Historic Structures Report
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PHOTOGRAPHS
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Photograph 6: A printed winter view looking north/northwest along Main
Street, roughly contemporary with photos 3 and 4. The ramshackle
single-bay wooden house east of the Cox House has substantially
deteriorated since photo 2 was taken. The J. S. deNeuville store has not
yet been built northwest of the Digges House.
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Photograph 7: View looking
northwest along Main Street published in Charles H. Callahan,
Washington: The Man and the Mason, (c. 1913), with the Custom
House on the left. The Digges House appears in better condition, freshly
painted white (except woodwork and upper chimneystacks), and with a new
sawn-work porch railing enclosing the exterior cellar steps at right
end. The front right door is visible inside this enclosure, and louvered
shutters remains in place. The Cox House, which apparently burned in
1912, remains standing, and the turn-of-the-century J. S. deNeuville
store is now standing.1
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Photograph 8: Photograph taken from near the Nelson House, looking
northwest, offering a clear view of the Cox and Cole Digges houses, with
chickens and sleeping dog in the foreground. Taken somewhat later than
photo 6 because the one-story wooden extension has disappeared from the
east end of the Cox House by this time.
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Photograph 9: View of the Digges House from the south, across a rutted
dirt Main Street, with a telegraph pole to the left. The house seems to
have declined somewhat. All shutters have been removed from front and
visible right windows. A solid front door has replaced the glazed
leaves, and an old nail-studded leaf is in the right front door. There
are nine-over-nine sash with wide muntins in the right window lighting
the right front room, perhaps the earliest surviving sash visible in any
of the photographs. A small rectangular sign has been attached to the
right of the front door transom.
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Photograph 10: A view from the west contemporary with photo 8. In
this rare view, one glimpses the mid-19th-century brick-walled rear shed
across a white-painted brick fence. Two front window wells intended to
light the cellar are clearly visible. Shutters are absent on the left
wall as well.
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1Photos of the street taken by
Rufus N. Barrows in 1914 show the Digges House in the same condition and
only the brick walls of the Cox House standing. John A. Barrows
Photograph Collection, Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
colo/cole-digges-hsr/hsr8a.htm
Last Updated: 19-Jan-2005
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