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15520 Loyalty
This one-and-a-half-story brick home was built about 1948. This lot was part of a large tract once owned by Edwin Atlee (c.1831-1880), a livestock dealer and justice of the peace who owned most of the land surrounding Butchers Row in the late 19th century. |
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 Echo Hill
This lot was also part of Atlee's large tract, and remained unimproved until John William Vandevanter Virts (1849-1938) built this Victorian-style frame house about 1890. The cross gable at the center of the façade became a popular motif during the Gothic Revival period; it expressed the Gothic preoccupation with height. |
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 Fairfax Meetinghouse
Waterford's founding Quakers built their first meetinghouse (of logs) on this site in 1741. They replaced it with a stone structure in 1761; and ten years later doubled its size. This building architecturally mirrors many Quaker meetinghouses in Pennsylvania. It survived a disastrous fire in 1868 but by 1929 Waterford's few remaining Quakers "laid down" their meeting and joined the congregation at nearby Lincoln. Noted architect Allen McDaniel converted the structure into a home in 1939, an early example of adaptive use. |
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