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Home My WebLink About03-13 Comments (2) ENVIROBUSINESS, INC. LOCATIONS | ATLANTA, GA | BALTIMORE, MD | BURLINGTON, MA | CHICAGO, IL DALLAS, TX | DENVER, CO | HOUSTON, TX | LOS ANGELES, CA | NEW YORK, NY | PHOENIX, AZ | PORTLAND, OR SAN FRANCISCO, CA | SEATTLE, WA | YORK, PA 6876 Susquehanna Trail South York, PA 17403 Tel: (717) 428-0401 Fax: (717) 428-0403 www.ebiconsulting.com August 6, 2013 Ms. Stephanie M. Petway Zoning Project Manager Network Building & Consulting, LLC 7380 Coca Cola Drive, Suite 106 Hanover, MD 21076 Subject: Intensive Level Survey Form Site Number: 11617 / Wilde Acres 2250 Back Mountain Road, Winchester, Frederick County, VA EBI Project # 61132741 Dear Ms. Petway: EBI Consulting (EBI) has prepared an Intensive Level Survey Form on behalf of Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) for the property noted above. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the information contained in this report. Sincerely, Tara Cubie Ms. Jennifer L. Davis Architectural Historian Senior Architectural Historian P: 339.234.2597 Attachments: Intensive Level Survey Form Photos and Photo Location Map Site Plan Topographic Map Property Name: James T. McIlwee House GENERAL PROPERTY INFORMATION: DHR ID #: 034-0357 PROPERTY DATE (S): C.1890 PROPERTY NAMES: · James T. McIlwee House · House, Route 600 (from Rural Landmarks Survey Report Frederick County) ADDRESS: 2250 Back Mountain Road Town/Village/Hamlet: Winchester, Clowser Gap ZIP Code: 22602 County/Ind City: Frederick County USGS Quad Name: Hayfield, VA 1977 UTM Coords: 17S 729991mE 4340759mN Open to public: N Is there a CRM report: Yes PHYSICAL CHARACTER OF GENERAL SURROUNDINGS Setting: Rural, Agricultural Acreage: 218.42 Site Description Notes/Notable Landscape Features: The farm lies along the northwestern side of Back Mountain Road (Rt. 600). The property aligns with the road. The area around the house is gently rolling and is currently used for cattle grazing. A tree-lined ridge, also part of the property, is located northwest of the house and outbuildings. The area around the house has large trees and shrubs. Secondary Resource (s) Setting Description: Seven outbuildings and one foundation are located to the rear and south-west of the house. (1) privy, directly behind house (contributing) (2)Smokehouse, rear of house, next to privy (contributing) (3)Chicken Coop, east of main house (contributing) (4) three sheds/unidentified outbuildings, behind and west of house (contributing) (5) barn, located southwest of main house (contributing) and (6) foundation ruins, west of house (non-contributing). See site plan for more details. Ownership Categories: Private N/A HISTORIC DISTRICT INFORMATION Resource Type: Single Dwelling INDIVIDUAL RESOURCE INFORMATION: Primary Resource: Yes Estimated Date of Construction: C.1890 Source of Date: Interview with current owner, Architectural Style. Secondary Resources: 1. Shed 1-contributing 2. Shed 2-contributing 3. Shed 3-contributing 4. Smoke/Meat House-contributing 5. Barn-contributing 6. Privy-contributing 7. Chicken House/Poultry House-contributing Architectural Style/Form/Derivations: Folk Victorian Historical Use: Dwelling and Farm Current Use: Dwelling and farm ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: The James T. McIlwee House is believed to have been constructed in the 1890s, based on analysis of ornamentation and overall design, historical atlases and censuses, and an interview with current owner. The house is an I-house with an integral rear ell- a form that is common in Frederick County and the Mid-Atlantic. The basement, foundation and house indicate that they were likely built at the same time. The ornamentation is typical of the Folk Victorian style, with some minor Gothic Revival details. Unlike High-Style Victorian, it is more modest in ornamentation. The building has had some modern interventions. The original German lap weather board siding, which was originally on all elevations, was replaced with white aluminum siding approximately ten years ago. At the same time, the two-over-two double hung windows were replaced with modern double hung windows. The original stone foundation is located under poured concrete, and is visible in some sections of the building. The front (eastern) façade of the two story house is three bays wide and features a decorative one-story porch. Typical of the I-House, the façade emphasizes the house’s symmetrical design through its even placement of windows, doors, chimneys and porch along the central axis of the cross gabled roof. The façade has evenly spaced fenestration, with two windows flanking the central door on the lower level and three windows with equal spacing on the upper level. The house had a small pointed Gothic Revival arched attic window, which has since been removed and has been replaced with a vent with horizontal louvers. The classically styled Victorian porch includes decorative turned columns, decorative brackets, turned spindle spandrels, and a paneled frieze. The front porch encompasses both lower level windows and door. It has a poured concrete floor. The central door has been replaced and is not original to the house. The shed style porch roof has a standing seam metal roof that matches the cross-gabled roof of the house. Brick, running bond, corbelled chimneys protrude from each end of the roof. The southwestern and northeastern elevations of the I-House sections are matching and have two matching windows, one on each floor, located in the north half of the building. The southeastern façade of the rear-ell has a one-story porch with a shed roof. It is flanked at each end by small rooms. The porch is supported by a singular square post. The lower level has four double-hung windows: two located within the porch and two on the small rooms at the end of the porch. Two windows on the upper level align with the lower level porch openings. A paneled wooden door located behind a metal screen door provides access into the kitchen. The porch has a poured concrete floor. A brick, running bond, corbelled chimney protrudes from the center of the roof gable. The rear (western) façade of the ell is the only section of the house that is not symmetrical, as it reflects the massing of the one story porch on the southeastern elevation and the two story porch on the northwestern elevation. The rear façade has two windows, one on each floor, and an attic window vent with horizontal louvers. Exterior access to the basement is located through wooden exterior hatch doors (currently covered with metal). The rear-ell on the northwestern façade has a two-story porch with a combination gable and shed roof. The porch is located between the front I-House section and a small room at the northwestern end on both levels. The three bay porch is supported by square posts. The upper level railing has decorative turned balusters. The lower level porch has two double hung windows and three doors. The paneled wooden doors appear to date to the original period of construction. Two lead into the rear ell, and one door leads into the front I-House section. The upper level porch has two doors and two windows. Two additional windows, one on each level, are located on the north-western end rooms. Condition: Fair Number of Stories: 2 Interior Plan Type: Center Hall, single pile with rear ell. Accessed? No-unable to coordinate visit of interior with owner. Able to view interior of lower level through window, with permission of owner. Threat: NONE KNOWN DHR Time Period: Reconstruction and Growth (1866 to 1916) Historic Context (s): Domestic The house was constructed c.1890 by James T. (J.T.) McIlwee and his wife Victoria Gardner McIlwee. The house has remained it the McIlwee family since its construction. HISTORICAL SUMMARY (STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE) The James T. McIlwee House is located at 2250 Back Mountain Rd. (Rt. 600) in Frederick County, ten miles east of the city of Winchester, Virginia, and near the settlement of Clowser Gap. It is an example of the vernacular Victorian farmhouses that marked the prosperous farms of the Shenandoah Valley from the 1870s until the 1890s. Although modest in ornamentation, it is a good example of a rural turn of the century farm. The house is believed to have been constructed in the 1890s. It was presumably built by James T. McIlwee, a Frederick County farmer, and remains in the McIlwee family to the present day. The McIlwees were one of the original founding families of Frederick County. James T. McIlwee (known to his family as J.T.) was born in 1845, in Frederick County, to Mary and William McIlwee. He married Virginia Regina Gardner on February 7, 1867. Victoria was the daughter of William P. and Regina Gardner. William P. Gardner was a renowned local millwright. The James T. McIlwee house is similar in plan and style to other houses attributed to the Gardner family and may have been constructed by his in-laws. McIlwee’s land adjoined that of several other long-time residents of Frederick County. His neighbors included William P. Gardner, John Wotring, CH Snapp, as well as the Rosenberger and Clowser families. The house was located in a stretch characterized by more prosperous farms. The house was inherited c. 1923, after the death of Victoria and James, by Charles A. Mcillwee (b.1871), who married Mary A. Proffitt in 1900. Upon their deaths, Merle Marco McIlwee and his wife, Bertha, inherited the farm. The property is currently still owned by the McIlwee family. The overall appearance of the house appears to have been little changed since its construction. However, aluminum siding was put on the building and original windows were removed and replaced approximately ten years ago, which significantly impacts its historic integrity. Most of the other character defining features remain intact. Foundation: Poured concrete over original stone foundation. PRIMARY RESOURCE EXTERIOR COMPONENT DESCRIPTION Structure: Frame construction (sawn lumber) Walls: Aluminum siding. It is unknown if wood siding exists under aluminum siding. Windows: Double Hung, modern. Porch: Front façade one story porch, rear ell-south façade double porch, rear ell-north façade one story porch. All porches wood with spindle work detail. Roof: Cross Gable Roof. Standing seam metal. Chimney: two brick, running bond, chimneys with corbelled caps symmetrically placed on roof of main house, one brick, running bond, chimney with corbelled cap, center of rear ell roof. ASSOCIATED INDIVIDUALs INDIVIDUALS AND EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROPERTY Owner--J.T. and Victoria (nee Gardner) McIlwee C.1890-1923 Owner--Charles A. and Mary A. (nee Proffitt) McIlwee 1923-? Owner--Merle Marco McIlwee and Bertha (nee Brill) McIlwee ?-2012 Owner--Charles R. McIlwee 2012-present EVENTS: None found Photographs Included GRAPHIC MEDIA DOCUMENTATION Type Author (First and Last Name) Citation Notes BIBLIOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION Interview Charles R. McIlwee August 4, 2013 Conducted over phone Book Cartmell, Thomas Kemp Shenandoah Valley Pioneers & Their Descendents. Berryville, VA: Chesapeake Book Co. 1963 Book Hofstra, Warren R. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Book Kalbian, Maral S Frederick County, VA History Through Architecture. Winchester, VA: Winches-ter-Frederick County Historical Society Rural Landmarks Publication Committee, 1999 Book Kerns, Wilmer L Frederick Co., VA, Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley, 1730-1830. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1995. Book Quarles, Garland Redd. Some Old Homes in Frederick Co., VA. Winchester, VA: WFCHS, 1971, 1990. Census United State Government "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MJFJ-6DF : accessed 05 Aug 2013), James T Mcilwee, 1920 Census United States Government "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MPPV-JV7 : accessed 05 Aug 2013), James T Mcilwee, 1910. Virginia Marriages "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X5YZ-PY4 : accessed 05 Aug 2013), Jas. T. Mcilwee in entry for Chas. A. Mcilwee and Mary A. Proffitt, 07 Feb 1900. Atlas Lake, D.J. and Co. Lake’s Atlas of Frederick County.1885. Survey Kalbian, Maral S Rural Landmarks Survey Report Frederick County, Virginia Phase I-III 1988-1992 Including file with photographs for 34- 0357 Date Project # Event Type CRMPerson (First) CRMPerson (Last) Remarks CRM EVENT INFORMATION 1989 Survey: Phase I /Reconnaissance Leslie Giles SITE PLAN Date: August 4, 2013 See Attached Photo Location Map Arrow indicates the approximate location and direction in which the photograph was taken 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 7 11 8 9 12 1. View looking northwest towards front façade of house. 2. View looking southwest towards Main House. 3. View looking northeast towards Main House. 4. View looking southeast towards rear façade of Main House. 5. View northwest towards Smoke House. 6. View east towards privy. 7. View northwest towards Chicken Coop. 8. View towards northwest towards Shed #1. 9. View southwest towards barn. 10. View towards foundation ruins, likely a barn. 11. View northwest towards Shed #2 12. View northwest towards Shed #3 B D E F G H Foundation A. Main House-Single Dwelling B. Smoke House C. Privy D. Barn E. Shed #3 F. Shed #2 G. Shed #1 H. Chicken House/Coop Foundation Site Plan (Not to Scale): A C ^_ Legend ^_Selected Project Site Site Radius at 250', 500', 1000' & 1/2 mile Source: Selected data from USGS and EBI. Topographic Map 0 1,000 2,000500Feet µ Date: 8/6/2013 2250 BACK MOUNTAIN ROADWINCHESTER, VA 22602