On tour twice before under the watch of two earlier, caring owners, this charming and spacious "raised cottage" has enjoyed an elegant restoration by new, preservation-minded stewards, who relocated to Danville from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In 1913, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Gresham of Baltimore, Maryland, conveyed Lot 11 with this home, then under Construction, to S. J. Slaughter.  Sold for $2,250, the cottage is typical of the clean simplicity of architecture built during the Edwardian era.  Nonetheless, the home is embellished with a beveled, leaded-glass front door and a Neoclassical front porch.  This ornamentation is repeated in the interior with a Neoclassical colonnade, which defines the front foyer from the sitting room.

Stonewall Jackson Slaughter, its first occupant, was a Danville tobacconist.  He married Elizabeth Maury, who is descended from the well-known Maury and Harvie families of Danville and elsewhere in Virginia.  After Mr. Slaughter’s death, his wife continued to live here until 1950, when she sold the home to Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth Carter. The Carters resided on Sutherlin Avenue for over 20 years before selling the home to Mr. and Mrs. Elrod M. Long just about the time the Old West End Historic District was formed in the early 1970s.  Mr. Long was a co-owner of the Crowell-Long Ford dealership in Craghead Street's historic Crowell Building.  Mrs. Long held the position of City Registrar for many years.  During their tenure, renewed interest in preserving the area spurred the planting of trees along the curbside parkway strip in 1977.  In 1984 and again, beginning in 1990, the property was home to two couples named Mitchell – respectively, Mr. and Mrs. E. Harrison Mitchell III, and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mitchell – all of whom lavished considerable attention to make the spacious cottage a home reflecting the history of their respective families.

In 1995, the property was purchased by Ms. Cynthia Eastwood, who spent several years bringing the house into top form structurally.  Over the past year and a half the present owner, Richard Morris, and his comrade-in-restoration Mark Willard, have benefited from Ms. Eastwood's considerable efforts in preserving the house, now a showcase for their extensive array of antiques and period collections appropriate to a trim Edwardian cottage.