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The house is actually a large wing of an earlier house. The Glebe House, first built in 1777, burned down and was rebuilt in 1820. In 1857 the octagonal front portion was added. The octagon is the prominent portion of this house with the earlier structure acting as a wing. It has a circular porch. The cupola has sawed running trim along the edge and windows on alternate walls. The angles of the house have pilasters. It served as a hunting lodge.
State Senator Frank L. Ball, Sr. resided here for many years prior to it serving as National Genealogical Society headquarters. Its been restored as a private residence. Not to be confused with the McDowell octagon house, which, while similar, has 12 panes. This Glebe octagon extension has 16 panes in the windows. It is on the Historic Register and the only one of the 3 Arlington octagons to survive.
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The house was a bit more architecturally fanciful than the other two in Arlington. The tall cupola had tall thin windows The second floor windows rose up into the cornice and were flanked with decorative paired brackets. The front porch encircled the house on the first story with a gallery on the second floor. (Neither of the other 2 Arlington houses had a second floor gallery.)
This was located a mile outside Alexandria on the pike to Leesburg, today Route 7. General Henry Warner Slocum turned this and Powell house into hospitals and installed Amy Morris Bradley as lady superintendent. In 1862 the troops marched to Centreville and abandoned the hospitals.
This one has a narrower cupola and brackets. Plus every alternate sides have paired windows.
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