Built 1857 (1857)-1858 VLR # 108-0006 Opened 1858 Phone +1 434-799-5195 Added to NRHP 12 November 1969 | NRHP Reference # 69000338 Designated VLR May 13, 1969 Area 1 ha Architectural style Italianate architecture | |
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Location 975 Main St., Danville, Virginia Address 511 Patton St, Danville, VA 24541, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday9AM–1PMSundayClosedMonday10AM–7PMTuesday10AM–7PMWednesday10AM–6PMThursday10AM–8PM Similar Danville Museum of Fine Arts, Avenel, Horace Williams House, Wilderness Road Regional, Order of Gimghoul Profiles | ||
Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, also known as the William T Sutherlin Mansion and the Confederate Memorial, is a historic home and museum building located at Danville, Virginia. It was built for Major William T. Sutherlin in 1857-1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, stuccoed building in the Italian Villa style. It features a one-story wooden porch, a shallow hipped roof surrounded by a heavy bracketed cornice and topped by a square cupola ornamented with pilasters and a bracketed cornice.
While at the house, which served as his temporary residence from April 3 to April 10, 1865, on April 4, President Jefferson Davis signed his last official proclamation as President of the Confederate States of America. on April 10, Davis was at dinner at the house when he learned of the surrender at Appomattox.
The house later became the Danville Public Library and is currently the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History. In August 2015, the Danville city council voted to adopt an ordinance, only allowing the U.S., Virginia, City of Danville and the POW/MIA flag to be flown on city-maintained flagpoles, which resulted in the removal of the Third National flag of the Confederacy from the lawn of the building.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. It is located in the Danville Historic District.