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Details of Building and Grounds

Photo of the Bolling HomeThe Bolling Home was originally constructed in the 1840s. It is a two-story brick building with three storefronts at street level. The Bolling Home was located on the second floor of the building. The front corner room on the east side was the bedroom of Edith'sEdith Bolling Wilson at the Bolling Home parents, William and Sallie Bolling, and it was there that she was born. Judge William Bolling's study, located beside the bedroom, showcases original bookcases and the round-arched transom doorway that formerly opened to a balcony. The back porch area was used as additional living quarters and looked over the scenic mountains of Wytheville.

To read more of the Bolling Home, click on Edith Bolling Wilson's autobiography My Memoirs.

  Age 13
   
Owners During 1800's
  • Farmers Bank of Virginia – early 1840s, a Richmond bank that opened branches in a number of Virginia towns during the antebellum period.
  • Richard M. Taliaferro, Jr. purchased the building in 1853
  • Dr. Archibald Bolling purchased the building in 1860
  • Circuit Court Judge William H. and Sallie W. Bolling moved into the home in 1866
   
Current Owners
 
395 Chapman Road
  
Wytheville, Virginia 24382
 
(276) 228-8474
  
   
Access Possibilities
The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum located at 145 East Main Street, Wytheville, VA, is open Tuesday - Saturday afternoons. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
   
 
   
   
The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation
145 East Main Street, Wytheville, VA 24382
tel: (276) 22-EDITH (276-223-3484) OR (276) 228-8474 fax: (276) 228-5987

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