516 Franklin Street SE

1819 Rear rooms & service buildings, front rooms added before 1861 (c. 1855). (HJAC - '97)
District: Twickenham (919)
Built: c. 1819
Sign: Mastin Batson ca 1819
Location: Map ↗
516 Franklin Street SE

MASTIN-BATSON HOME, Franklin Street

Rare in its frame construction is this Franklin Street Mastin-Batson home, ca. 1819. Perhaps it survived because of the brick kitchen which is more fireproof than the house itself. The artist, Lee Harless, Jr., sketched this kitchen wing of the house in 1978.

Item 12 of 12 (5892)

Source: Lee Harless, Jr.
Date: 1978
Rights: Reproduced from "Twickenham Receipts and Sketches" published by the Twickenham Historic Preservation District Association, Inc., 1978, with the permission of THPDA and the artist.