Stewart-Lee House - Richmond

The Stewart-Lee House is located on Franklin Street in the Capitol Square District of Richmond, Virginia.  This Greek Revival style townhouse was constructed for wealthy merchant Norman Stewart in 1844.  Most famously the house served as the home of Mary Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee, and her daughter, from 1864 to 1865.  The family's home in Arlington had been confiscated by the Union Army in 1864, and the family fled south to the capitol in Richmond, at which time they reneted this home.  During the Union occupation the army was ordered to leave the family alone and guards were placed around the home to ensure this.  After Lee's surrender at Appomattox he came back here to Richmond, where he lived for several months until he accepted the position of president at Washington College in Lexington.  The home was once part of a row of residential townhouses which lined the block.  Today it is the lone survivor.  The Stewart-Lee House was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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