The story and a half single room building in back of Erin was built 100 years earlier, and was probably used as a home when Funsten built the main house. Three bedrooms of varying ceiling heights are on the second floor. Niches, and the dining room east behind the entrance hall. Other rooms on the first floor are the drawing room north (here pictured) dominated with ten and a half foot ceilings, elaborate carved woodwork, the twin Knocker is engraved 'Guernesey, England,' with the coat of arms of William the Conqueror, ancestor of Mrs. The master bedroom on the first floor south is just off the entrance hall (pictured here with its graceful circular stairs.) On the bedroom door the unusual Most Windows, ranging in nine different sizes, retain their original glass, and the thick pine floors have stood the test of 140 or more years. In the downstairs woodwork, there are five different designs, another upstairs, and still another motif in the outside office. (interior photo at right on either side of the fireplace by extending the walls on both sides of the stone chimneys (visible in main photo.) The walls of the house are filled with brick, and during construction high interior niches, in the Greek style, were incorporated In the yard (at left of main house in photo.) David Funsten, Princeton graduate, politician, and lawyer built Erin circa 1845 and erected his law office The Virginia Historic Landmarks Commissionīuilt in the 1840s, Erin is a sophisticated example of a three-part Greek Revival country house, and is dominatedīy an Ionic portico.

Warren's Erin has been added to the Virginia Landmarks Register. The house was erected for David Funsten, a local lawyer and politician. Dating from 1848, the structure is considered to be a sophisticatedĮxample of a three-part Greek Revival country home. 522, in Warren County, has been added to the Virginia The Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission has announced 'Erin,' located at the intersection (Some photos accompanied this article but the copies were too light to display here.) (From the Northern Virginia Daily dated Monday 5 November 1979) Erin Historic Landmark Erin Historic Landmark

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