George T. Pearson, Archetect for N&W

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Abram:
Thank you! I really enjoyed seeing this again and the other houses on the site.
Charlie Long
Lynchburg, VA

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>Subject: George T. Pearson, Archetect for N&W

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>Several years ago, when we were trying to locate the Philadelphia home of Frederick J. Kimball, I sent to N&W List a link to a page showing some of the architectural work of George T. Pearson, the designer of Frederick J. Kimball's home.  

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>http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/archx/gtp/index.html

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>That webpage has now been upgraded and even shows the home of Frederick Kimball's father, F.S. Kimball (5th item down on the page):

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>http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/archx/gtp/gtpto86.html

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>On another page (5th house frrom bottom of page) is a recent photo of the veritable mansion Pearson designed for Edward W. Clark, Jr.  The E.W. Clark & Co. private banking house was, as you will recall, the money behind the late Shenandoah Valley and the early N&W. From the looks of Junior's digs, it appears that the family did really well...

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>http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/archx/gtp/gtp87-90.html

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> All this has special interest to me as, thirty years ago, I lived just a couple of blocks from these one-time mansions built by Philadelphia Old Money.  By my time in the area, all these old mansions had been cut up into rental properties... the rich had moved away because of exorbidant Philadelphia taxation and social problems.

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>Pearson also designed many buildings for the N&W, and a number of them are shown on the page linked below.  You'll especially like the 14th item, a "Signal Tower" (1889-1891.)  The notation seems to indicate they were designed for West Roanoke, Bluefield Yard, Bluestone Junction, Graham, "plus one at Durham Division Junction."  And we know that a similar one existed at Glenvar, and possibly one at Singer, too.  Anyone have a complete list of where all these oddities existed?

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>http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/archx/gtp/gtpoutpa.html

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>-- abram burnett

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