ƂƁ COUNTRYLIVING.COM / NOVEMBER 2019
every house
has a storyWHEREABOUTS:
Williamsburg, VA
YEAR BUILT: 1755
HISTORY:
Attorney John Palmer
rebuilt the six-room
Georgian—now known
as Palmer House—after
a fi re destroyed the
original (rumor has it
his ghost visits in the
form of a red cardinal).
It was a Union
headquarters during
the Civil War.