Chippokes Plantation State Park

Quarter Lane


Tenant House

This house is currently occupied as living quarters for park personnel.

Please do no disturb them.

The second oldest tenant houses stand along Quarter Lane. Built in the 1910s before Victor Stewart bought Chippokes, both feature one 1/2-story, two-room-plan main blocks measuring l6 x 31 1/2 feet. Both have central stove flues, asymmetrical four-bay fronts, and raised attics. Both dwellings have small single-story, one-room-plan kitchen wings. The wing on this house, fronted by a shed-roofed porch, may be original. The interiors of both houses are very plain, being sheathed with painted four-inch-wide horizontal boards. Built to house a single family, these dwellings each have a single corner stair to the loft. They stand in contrast to the similar-sized slave dwellings at Chippokes, which contain double sets of stairs to accommodate two families in a single structure.

Joe & Viester Osborne resided in this house prior to moving to what is now Cabin #3, near the back gate on Cedar Lane.