The Fort Nelson Chapter, NSDAR, House is an architect-designed one-and-one-half story building exhibiting characteristics of a colonial Tidewater house. Constructed in 1935, the building features a symmetrical façade with a central entrance sheltered by a classical overhang supported by scrolled brackets. The building is wood frame clad in weatherboard resting on a brick foundation. The roof is side-gable clad in composite shingles with symmetrically-placed gabled dormers situated on each pitch of the roof. The building’s construction period was between September and December of 1935, with a formal dedication on December 3, 1935. Mr. Jerome Carr, who was a member of the SAR, donated the house and lot in honor of his wife, Martha Womble Carr who was regent at the time, and also donated some furnishings for the house. At the October 1935 Virginia DAR State Board Meeting, the State Historian announced that the Fort Nelson Chapter NSDAR had received a gift of a Chapter House. It was also noted at this meeting that it was the first in the state. 

 

The house has been used as a meeting place ever since it was built in 1935.