Lavish Tudor Revival-style, post World War I, and other distinct design features relate this house to ones nearby on West Main and Lady Astor Streets, and in Forest Hills, all from the Roaring 20s, and by local architect J. Bryant Heard.

A product of the golden age of 1920s revivals-Spanish, Mediterranean, Dutch Colonial, American Colonial, to name just a few-this English Cottage or Tudor Revival house was completed 1922-23 for one of the area's most enterprising families, Mr. and Mrs. James I. Pritchett, Jr. Descended from a family with roots deep in Virginia's Pittsylvania and Halifax counties, James I. Pritchett, Jr., operated with his father a wholesale grocery and building supply firm, James I. Pritchett and Son.  Another family enterprise, Dan Valley Mills, operated from 1894 until the early 1960s.  Until subsequent owners demolished it just four years ago, the last remnant of the Dan Valley complex – a four-story brick flour mill – anchored the north corner of the Main Street (now Martin Luther King) Bridge at Route 58.

In fact, for some years, both generations named James I. Pritchett, father and son, lived only two blocks apart.  The father's residence, the old Pritchett homeplace, stood at 992 Main Street until the mid-1950s when it was razed, along with the Dibrell mansion at 990, for construction of the Doctors Building.

Apparently, when the younger Pritchetts first called 108 West Main Street home, it was an earlier, wood-framed dwelling purchased from Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Traylor about 1910.  A dozen years later, the Pritchetts had that house razed in favor of its more stylish successor.

Following its 40-year occupancy by James I. Pritchett, Jr., and his family, the house at 108 West Main served as annex-dormitories for Stratford College until the school closed in 1974.  Thereafter, the first floor housed the medical offices of Dr. Lurton Arey, followed by those of Dr. Randy Buckspan.  These handsome rooms also have housed an accountant and an arts organization.

Today, the Danville Yoga and Meditation Center has found a home in the historic Pritchett House, the property since 2004 of Cristina and James Thomas.  The Center's ten-person staff cultivates serenity of mind, body and spirit in this historic setting of spacious rooms with Tudor-Revival-style fixtures that echo its charming exterior.