These are some of the best photos I've seen of our ancestral home. It was constructed just outside Lexington, VA in the mid 1700s for the family home of Wm Porter and then his son Wm Porter and his family, the last of whom was OUR Reese Porter.
It lay for decades used as a hay storage barn. In the mid 20th century a San Antonio builder who was really into colonial homes commissioned someone to find him one that was for sale and moveable. He had someone mark the logs and stones and put them on a flatcar and moved it all to a vacant lot in San Antonio for reassembling.
I've been inside and it pretty big. A freshly minted MD and his wife were living there in the mid 90's. The split and it came on the market for $89,000. I almost bought it but I knew it would be nothing but a headache. Landlording is really not much fun. It is located inside the "loop" circling SA at about 10 o'clock. It borders the "barrio" and the old country club.
