A.P. Hill Boyhood Home
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By Allison Brophy Champion
Published: August 22, 2008
A pictorial account of downtown Culpeper wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the boyhood home of famed Confederate General A.P. Hill, a Culpeper native.
Built in 1770, the three-story brick building - albeit much evolved - still stands at the northwest corner of Main and Davis streets, situated on Lot 14 in the original plat of the town, according to “Historic Culpeper.”
The Hill family remodeled the building in the 1850s in the Italian Villa style. It was listed to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Union General Ulysses S. Grant, living in Culpeper during the Winter Encampment of 1863, is said to have walked daily to Dr. Gorrell’s pharmacy,
located in this building, to purchase cigars and discuss the war, according to “Downtown Culpeper.”
Gorrell’s pharmacy contained Culpeper’s first soda fountain.
This 1900s post card shows Nottingham’s Department Store occupying the building.
Today, the boyhood home of A.P. Hill houses many tenants, including Pepperberries and Countrywide.—by Allison Brophy Champion
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