This comfortable looking home, long an American Foursquare style dwelling covered in stucco, probably dates from just before the turn of the century. For much of the 1890’s the present structure, or an earlier one at this address, was the residence of a prominent tobacco warehouseman Thomas A. Corbin and his wife Con. In 1899, Mrs. Corbin conveyed the property to David A. Tyree. It remained in this family for almost the next quarter century—first as homeplace to the Tyrees and their children John, Hazel, and Addie, and later as that of the latter daughter Addie Tyree Mahan, and her husband, Charles M. Mahan. Many Danvillians recall these families especially for the well-known wholesale grocery firm Mahan & Tyree which operated for nearly three quarters of a century. During the Tyree/Mahan ownership, insurance maps from the first decades of this century show this house as a weatherboard dwelling with a full length front porch with circular pavilions at each end. The present stucco exterior was added sometime after 1919 when the Mahans left their North Main home for a new English Cottage style house at272 West Main Street. Theirold home on North Main was purchased by lsaac A. Evans, who lived here with his wife and daughters for some twelve years. City directories of theI92O’sandearlyl93lYsshow Mr. Evans as a carpenter and later as acting superintendent of the U.S. National Cemetery. In 1934 the Evans sold the house to Mr. & Mm. Eugene H. Chappell. Although Mrs. Chappell died in 1937, Mr. Chappell, a superintendent of Danville’s Municipal Building on Patton Street, and later a grocer, continued to live here until 1964. Two more families owned and occupied the house over the next two decades. Since 1984, when Vicky and Wesley Whitfield purchased the house, it has made for them and their children not only a lovely home but also it has come to be recognized as Danville’s "home away from home,” Hospitality House In the warmth of beautifully appointed rooms, groups can reserve space for delightful parties, receptions, or for full- course meals and all the trimmings.