Toddsbury
The house continues to be a private residence.
A 1+1⁄2-story building of brick laid in Flemish bond. An L-shaped house with a center stair hall, and two flanking rooms in the long arm and a subsidiary stair hall and another room in the wing. Toddsbury is a 17th-century house with 18th-century additions. The land was patented by Thomas Todd in 1657 but later went to the Tabb family. In 1880 it was purchased by the parents of William Mott, who died about 1939, The Property was later purchased in 1956 by Mrs. Charles Beatty Moore, a well-known Virginia preservationist who placed the property on the National Register of Historic Places and Virginia Landmark Properties. Her nephew, Francis Breckinridge Montague, inherited the property at Mrs. Moore's death in 1988 and continued the restoration and preservation of the fine old home, often referred to as the "Jewel of the Tidewater".
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "036-0045 Toddsbury". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography vol. 1, p.343
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (August 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Toddsbury" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
- ^ "Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, VA". Library of Congress.
External links
Media related to Toddsbury at Wikimedia Commons
- Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, VA: 37 photos, 8 color transparencies, 9 measured drawings, 5 data pages, and 3 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Toddsbury, Outbuildings & Gardens, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, VA: 7 photos and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey