{"id":2928,"date":"2018-10-04T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2022-02-19T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:40:03","slug":"dr-james-willard-and-willard-hall-next-in-the-lovettsville-historical-society-lecture-series-10142018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/dr-james-willard-and-willard-hall-next-in-the-lovettsville-historical-society-lecture-series-10142018\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. James Willard and Willard Hall, Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series (10\/14\/2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presented by\u00a0Cookie Anagnoson, owner\u00a0of Willard Hall,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n & Michael Zapf, LHS Researcher,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday,\u00a0Oct.\u00a014, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday, October 14, 2018, the Lovettsville Historical Society will present a discussion of\u00a0Willard Hall, the\u00a0intriguing\u00a0brick building on Pennsylvania Avenue,\u00a0which\u00a0is\u00a0one of the oldest\u00a0houses\u00a0in Lovettsville,\u00a0and perhaps the most architecturally sophisticated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Willard Hall has always been somewhat of a mystery. Why is such a stately building located on what was known as the \u201cback street,\u201d where it stands out at\u00a0so\u00a0architecturally distinctive? Is it because it was\u00a0actually\u00a0built before the rest of the surrounding buildings?\u00a0Was it originally set back from the colonial road which became\u00a0Lovettsville\u2019s Main Street or \u201cfront street,\u201d today known as Broad Way? Could Willard Hall have been built before the American Revolution, as some people have\u00a0thought?<\/span><\/p>\n

These questions will be explored by\u00a0Cookie Anagnoson,\u00a0the present owner of Willard Hall, who has been researching the history of her home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Zapf of the Lovettsville Historical Society will supplement Ms. Anagnoson\u2019s presentation, with remarks about Dr. James Willard, the building\u2019s namesake who\u00a0purchased it in 1868.\u00a0Dr. James Willard\u00a0was\u00a0an Army surgeon\u00a0during the Civil War\u00a0who served with the 13th\u00a0Maryland Infantry\u00a0Regiment\u00a0(USA), also known as the\u00a0Potomac Home Brigade,\u00a0and was in charge of the Union Army\u2019s general field hospital at Sandy Hook, MD for a period of time.\u00a0He lived at Willard Hall until his death in\u00a01906, and served northern Loudoun County as a physician.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zapf has been studying Dr. Willard\u2019s journals which he kept during the Civil War, and which are now in the possession of the Lovettsville Historical Society. In his\u00a0journals, Dr. Willard discussed not only military affairs, but a broad range of historical, religious, and social questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The lecture will be held at\u00a0St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way,\u00a0Lovettsville, VA 20180. The program will be followed, as is customary, by questions\u00a0and discussion. \u00a0Admission is free, but donations and are welcome to defray expenses of the program and to support the activities of the Lovettsville Historical Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0www.LovettsvilleHistoricalSociety.org\u00a0or email\u00a0events@lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org.<\/span><\/p>\n

Support our mission to preserve and protect the history of Lovettsville, The German Settlement, and our unique corner of Loudoun County, Virginia. Purchase a membership or make a tax-deductible donation today. The Lovettsville Historical Society, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions and membership dues are tax deductible under Internal Revenue Code Section 170.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presented by\u00a0Cookie Anagnoson, owner\u00a0of Willard Hall, & Michael Zapf, LHS Researcher, Sunday,\u00a0Oct.\u00a014, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, October 14, 2018, the Lovettsville Historical Society will present a discussion of\u00a0Willard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}