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June Tolliver House

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Built
  
1890 (1890)

VLR #
  
101-0003

Opened
  
1890

Phone
  
+1 276-523-4707

NRHP Reference #
  
73002067

Designated VLR
  
July 17, 1973

Area
  
4,000 m²

Added to NRHP
  
28 August 1973

June Tolliver House

Location
  
522 Clinton Ave E, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Address
  
522 Clinton Ave E, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219, USA

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

Similar
  
Rotherwood Mansion, Martha Washington Inn, Abijah Thomas House, Glen Mansion, Museum of Ashe County Hi

"June Tolliver" House, also known as the The June Tolliver House & Folk Art Center, is a historic home located at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a 2 12-story, three-bay Queen Anne-style brick dwelling. It has complex gable roof with projecting end bays. It is recognized as the house in which June Morris, the prototype of June Tolliver, heroine of John Fox, Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine boarded when she came to school in Big Stone Gap. The house is open as a museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

References

June Tolliver House Wikipedia