COLONIAL
Cole Digges House
Historic Structures Report
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PHOTOGRAPHS
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Photograph 11: Uneven view from the south showing the
Digges House used as the First National Bank of Yorktown, with a long
rectangular sign hanging above a concrete sidewalk. The building appears
in rough condition despite its new function. Much of the sawn work
railing has disappeared from the right end, replaced with plain rails,
and there is some type of fabric, probably canvas with a tar coating,
patching the inevitable leaks where the dormer roofs meet the front
slope.
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Photograph 12: A more complete view, slightly later, with canvas
draped over shingles below the front dormers and what appears to be
tarred canvas covering sizable parts of the right slope on the ell roof.
A concrete sidewalk has been laid in front of the house.
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Photograph 13: Postcard view from the south, labeled "Old Bank,
Yorktown, Va." The side porch has disappeared, leaving holes in the
right wall and flooring boards or cover over the cellar steps. The early
nine-over-nine sash are now clearly visible between the two right doors.
Fabric above the front door has fallen away, leaving firing strips, and
the bank sign has been taken away. Two front cellar window wells are
visible in the concrete sidewalk.
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Photograph 14: A remarkable view looking west past the fully exposed
right wall of the Cole Digges House toward the Customs House. This is a
still photo from D. W. Griffith's film America, 1924. Wistful
maidens stand in the exterior door to the rear passage, various
colonials pile up against the gable-end wall, and a slave carries tubs
of water past a pair of frontiersmen with furs and flintlocks. The mid-19th-century
shingle roof and earlier nine-over-nine sash remain in
place.
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Photograph 15: Detail of right gable, new interior chimney, and right
slope of the ell, labeled "Pate House, June 6, 1925, by John H. Scarff."2
The right-facing dormer has been reworked
and the picturesque slate roof installed, but the sash are not yet in
place.
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2Photos 15-22 are original
roughly 3" x 5" prints, now a sepia color, in a file labeled "Photos of
Pate House dated June, 1926. Photographed by John H. Scarff, Wyatt &
Nolting Architects, Keyser Building, 207 East Redwood Street, Baltimore,
Md.," although some are from 1926 or slightly later.
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Last Updated: 19-Jan-2005
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