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Photo, Print, Drawing Manassas National Battlefield Park, Mary Jane Dogan House, Lee Highway at Featherbed Lane , Manassas Park, Manassas Park (Independent City), VA Manassas National Battlefield Park

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[ Drawings from Survey HABS VA-1535  ]

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About this Item

Title

  • Manassas National Battlefield Park, Mary Jane Dogan House, Lee Highway at Featherbed Lane , Manassas Park, Manassas Park (Independent City), VA

Other Title

  • Manassas National Battlefield Park

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Dogan, Mary Jane
  • Lyles, Alexander
  • Dogan, William Henry
  • Dogan, Henry
  • Dogan, Jane Dawson
  • Dogan, William Henry, II
  • Dogan, Mary Ellen (Mollie) Benson
  • Dogan, Medora
  • Dogan, Lucy
  • Dogan, William
  • Dogan, Mary
  • Dogan, Lucinda
  • Dogan, William Henry, III
  • Stonewall Memory Gardens
  • Groveton Ladies Memorial Association
  • Smith, Patsy (Patty)
  • Dogan, John
  • Trott, Hettie
  • Trott, Edward
  • Dogan, Ann
  • Wheeler, William L. B.
  • Dogan, John Franklin
  • Dogan, Kate
  • Lyles, Matilda
  • Lyles, James
  • Wiley, Margaret Catherine
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS), Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC), sponsor
  • Davidson, Paul, project manager
  • Lavoie, Catherine C., historian
  • De Sousa, Daniel, historian
  • Pierce, Ryan, delineator
  • Davidson, Paul, delineator
  • De Sousa, Daniel, field team
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  stone chimneys
  • -  voussoirs
  • -  platform frames
  • -  dugout cellars
  • -  German siding
  • -  domestic life
  • -  houses
  • -  women
  • -  adaptive reuse
  • -  L-plan buildings
  • -  Virginia--Manassas Park (Independent City)--Manassas Park

Latitude / Longitude

  • 38.812823,-77.549332

Notes

  • -  Significance: The house was erected between 1878 and 1880 for Mary Jane Dogan by noted Alexandria, Virginia builder Alexander Lyles in the vernacular I-house form. Resting in part on the foundations of an earlier structure and utilizing salvaged building components, it speaks to the reversal of fortune that many southern families within farming communities faced in the aftermath of the Civil War. Groveton was the scene of the Second Battle of Manassas and as such most of the houses and farm buildings were damaged or burned, crops and livestock confiscated, and the surrounding agricultural countryside trampled. It was not uncommon for those faced with such deprivations to rebuild using the remnants of previous structures. In this case sections of the house, otherwise of standardized dimensional lumber, incorporate building elements likely part of the old "tavern & storehouse" that Mary Jane received in 1855 from the estate of her father, William Henry Dogan, as part of his Peach Grove plantation. Today only the log and frame overseer's house remains of William Dogan's 700-acre plantation that included a fine stone house, requisite outbuildings, and commercial ventures. The tavern & storehouse was erected by William Dogan undoubtedly to take advantage of the travelers and drovers along the Warrenton turnpike that was laid between 1807 and 1824. The buildings were erected at the Groveton crossroads to the southeast corner of the Peach Grove tract, probably in the winter/spring of 1824-1825. Construction followed both the completion of the turnpike and William's inheritance of the property after the death of his own father, Henry Dogan, in 1823. The turnpike was likewise an advantageous location for the store that Mary Jane later operated out of the c. 1880 shed attachment to her house (no longer extant) on the same site. The combination of proprietor's house and store was common during the period, particularly in agricultural communities, and the store, like the tavern that preceded it, provided a crucial component of rural and small town life. The two-story, frame house exhibits a typical I-house configuration encompassing a center-passage with a single room to either side, and a kitchen wing to the rear. The I-house originated in the Chesapeake region, moving south along the Appalachians and into the lower Midwest, eventually reaching as far west as Texas and north as the Ohio territory. It became the most common form of folk housing, and during the nineteenth century was often considered emblematic of economic attainment, a step-up from the log, hall-parlor houses of previous generations. This was most certainly the case for Mary Jane Dogan, who as a single woman in the late-nineteenth century achieved enough financial independence to erect her own house and store, despite her family's overall economic decline. The house is somewhat unusual for an I-house in that it does not possess the characteristic chimneys at each gable end, sharing a chimney between the main block and the kitchen wing, likely yet another cost-saving measure. Possessing little ornamentation, the chimneys are a character defining feature of the house, utilizing indigenous, locally quarried red sandstone combined with brick in a vernacular pattern that employs an uncommon use of voussoirs over the fireplace openings.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2465, N2466
  • -  Survey number: HABS VA-1535
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1878-1880 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 7
  • Data Page(s): 69

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS VA-1535

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • va2381

Rights Advisory

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Mary Jane Dogan, Alexander Lyles, William Henry Dogan, Henry Dogan, Jane Dawson Dogan, William Henry Dogan, et al. Manassas National Battlefield Park, Mary Jane Dogan House, Lee Highway at Featherbed Lane , Manassas Park, Manassas Park Independent City, VA. Virginia Manassas Park Independent City, 1933. translateds by Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/va2381/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Dogan, M. J., Lyles, A., Dogan, W. H., Dogan, H., Dogan, J. D. [...] De Sousa, D. (1933) Manassas National Battlefield Park, Mary Jane Dogan House, Lee Highway at Featherbed Lane , Manassas Park, Manassas Park Independent City, VA. Virginia Manassas Park Independent City, 1933. McPartland, M., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/va2381/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al. Manassas National Battlefield Park, Mary Jane Dogan House, Lee Highway at Featherbed Lane , Manassas Park, Manassas Park Independent City, VA. trans by Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/va2381/>.