. Historic Virginia homes and churches . ICE-HOUSE AT EXCHANGE TODDSBURY Next above The Exchange is Toddsbui-y, one of themost charming as well as one of the oldest houses inGloucester. On North River and standing close to thewaters edge, amid splendid trees, the homestead, with itsgambrel roof, quaint porch-chamber, and other evidencesof antiquity, makes a delightful picture. The interior isfully as interesting, with its panelled rooms and arched anddeeply recessed windows. Between these windows and thehigh wainscoted mantels are little cupboards which suggesthidden mysteries and excite the c
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . ICE-HOUSE AT EXCHANGE TODDSBURY Next above The Exchange is Toddsbui-y, one of themost charming as well as one of the oldest houses inGloucester. On North River and standing close to thewaters edge, amid splendid trees, the homestead, with itsgambrel roof, quaint porch-chamber, and other evidencesof antiquity, makes a delightful picture. The interior isfully as interesting, with its panelled rooms and arched anddeeply recessed windows. Between these windows and thehigh wainscoted mantels are little cupboards which suggesthidden mysteries and excite the curiosity to a pleasurabledegree. The house was probably built by Thomas Todd, awealthy merchant and planter, who married Anne ® Todd family: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,iii, 79—83. An interesting chart of the English ancestry of AnnGorsuch, wife of Thomas Todd I, is given Ibid., xvii, 292— TUDDfiBrUV. MIRTH IlidNT . (;1.(>I ( KSTEK (OINTV
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