Lanier Avenue
Chatham, Virginia

Edited by Henry Mitchell.

South Side


11 Lanier Avenue

11 Lanier Avenue (9/2006). This house was built around 1950 for Mr. and Mrs. Claude Emerson, and is the childhood home of their daughter, Pulitzer-winning poet Claudia Emerson.



17 Lanier Avenue

17 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



21 Lanier Avenue

21 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



25 Lanier Avenue

25 Lanier Avenue (9/2006). This Federal-style house was built for Hugh Wier around 1830, and is now the home of Phil and Pam Mauger and family. See further information in the article “Chatham's Classic.”



29 Lanier Avenue

29 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



37 Lanier Avenue

37 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



41 Lanier Avenue

41 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



45 Lanier Avenue

45 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



53 Lanier Avenue

53 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



57 Lanier Avenue

57 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



North Side


18 Lanier Avenue

18 Lanier Avenue (9/2006). Originally constructed as the Episcopal Rectory at 111 North Main Street, this building was moved to this location to make way for the later structure. It is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Richards.



22 Lanier Avenue

22 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



26 Lanier Avenue

26 Lanier Avenue (9/2006). An intriguing combination of Neo-Colonial, Homestead, and Queen Anne style elements, this house was built in the very early 1900's.

Ownership has passed sequentially among the following: Alice Williams; Cora Tredway; John Hurt “Jack” Whitehead; Mrs. Arthur L. Conner (1940); Arthur L. Conner; and Sue Ann Conner Holloway (1986).1



30 Lanier Avenue

30 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



32 Lanier Avenue

32 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



38 Lanier Avenue

38 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



42 Lanier Avenue

42 Lanier Avenue (9/2006).



70 Lanier Avenue

70 Lanier Avenue (9/2006). This brick ranch-style house was built of cinderblock around 1960, and then veneered with brick salvaged from the demolition of the old Hotel Chatham. It was the office of attorney W. Carlton White.



Source

  1. Sue Ann Conner Holloway, Chatham, Virginia, 10/17/2006.

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