Huntley: A Mason Family Country HouseWrenn, Tony P.
History
Huntley: A Mason Family Country House
Wrenn, Tony P.
Huntley (Va.)
Air Junction promoters invited the Graf Zeppelin and subsequent airships
to make their base here rather than at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The same
invitation went to the British and to others, but the accidental burning
of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, seems to have put an end
to dreams of a great airship junction at Huntley, though there was an
operative airport there. Such names as Lockheed Boulevard, Fairchild
Drive, Piper Lane, Beechcraft Drive and Fordson Road still survive.
Later Owners
Albert R. Harrison, still unmarried and last of the Harrison children,
died on March 24, 1946, and in September his executors sold Huntley to
August W. and Eleanor S. Nagel.[48] For some reason the Nagels had
Edward M. Pitt, an Arlington architect, do seven sheets of drawings of
Huntley that same year.[49]
Less than three years later the Nagels sold the house to the present
owners, Colonel and Mrs. Ransom G. Amlong.[50]
Chapter 2 Notes
[Footnote 16: Deed Book B., No. 4, p. 448, November 7, 1859 Fairfax
County, Virginia. T.F. Mason's first name is spelled "Thomason,"
"Thompson" and "Thomson."]
[Footnote 17: Helen Hill Miller, =George Mason Constitutionalist=
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938), p. 18.]
[Footnote 18: Stevens Thompson Mason, =Mason Family Chart=.]
[Footnote 19: Ann was not Mason's grandmother, but the first wife of his
grandfather. Thomson was a favorite of Grandfather Chichester and he
would have known of Ann Gordon. Mr. Chichester had, as a matter of fact,
spent his first married years with the Gordon family.]
[Footnote 20: C.A. Gordon, =History of the House of Gordon= (Aberdeen:
D. Wyllie & Son, 1890), p. 11.]
[Footnote 21: Will Book M, No. 1, p. 130, November 21, 1820, Fairfax
County, Virginia.]
[Footnote 22: Deed Book W, No. 2, p. 199, October 1, 1823, Fairfax
County, Virginia.]
[Footnote 23: January 29, 1818, Letter to Alexandria Baggett from
Thomson F. Mason, Alexandria, William Francis Smith Collection, Thomson
F. Mason Papers.]
[Footnote 24: =Ibid.=, A.P. Glover [?] to T.F. Mason, October 18, 1819.]
[Footnote 25: =Ibid.=, P. Taylor "sent T.F. Mason, esq...." February 5,
1823. Mason either was not at Huntley at the time, or the items were for
his tenant. The bill notes specifically that the delivery was for
"W.T.R.".]
[Footnote 26: Lee vs. Chichester, #60, Fairfax County Court House. From
a deposition of Bernard Hooe.]
[Footnote 27: Letter, William Francis Smith Collection.]
[Footnote 28: =Ibid.=, Price Skinner to T.F. Mason, December 7, 1832.]
[Footnote 29: At least 10 documents concerning the work which Mason did
at Colross are in the William Francis Smith Collection.]
[Footnote 30: Will Book T, No. 1, p. 3, Fairfax County, Virginia.]
[Footnote 31: Will Book T, No. 1, pps. 1-4, Fairfax County, Virginia.]
[Footnote 32: Deed Book B, No. 4, p. 448, November 7, 1859, Fairfax
County, Virginia.]
[Footnote 33: Deed Book B, No. 4, pps. 449-50, November 7, 1859, Fairfax
County, Virginia.]
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