Main House
A Landmark Residence Where Architecture and Setting Work in Harmony.
Exterior Views.
“The house was built in the first decade of the 1800s by John Wharton (1762-1814), a sea captain, privateer, and maritime merchant who spent much time in Philadelphia.”
Mark Reinberger, Utility and Beauty: Robert Wellford and Composition Ornament in America, 2003.
“… said to be, by far the finest and most costly house, ever built on the Eastern Shore of Va….”
S. Bassett French, Notes for Annals of Prominent Virginians of the XIX Century, 1895.
