Date:  ca. 1969

Image Number:   B252cdB25

Comments:  This Scottsville home is located on Harrison Street between Lindsay and Clements Streets (Lots 172-174) and was built ca. 1838 for the Jefferies family.  Thomas Ellison Bruce purchased this home and three lots from Elizabeth S. Jefferies on December 15, 1919 (Albemarle Co. Deed Book 172, pp. 72-73). The Bruce family lived in this home for many years.  The Jefferies-Bruce house is an excellent example of 19th century symmetry in design and craftsmanship with its Tuscan portico, four matching chimneys, and double-pile central passage floor plan over a high basement.  This house was built on land which was at one time part of Belle Grove Plantation and is now part of the Harrison Addition in Scottsville.

The drawing of the Jefferies-Bruce House at above right was drawn by Shayn Bjornholm, 1990.  It is provided courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540; Call Number: HABS, VA, 2-SCOTS,8.