Clifton in Fairfax County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Ferndale
ca. 1904
Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), March 27, 2022
1. Ferndale Marker
Inscription.
Ferndale. ca. 1904. The Poindexter family built this house in the Folk Victorian style. An old postcard written by Laura Poindexter revealed that the house was named "Ferndale". Long time Clifton resident, Margaret Detwiler Webb lived and painted here as a young woman in the 1920's. Actress Helen Hayes vacationed here with her nephew and his wife in the 1960's. The facade of the house was restored in 2000.
The Poindexter family built this house in the Folk Victorian style. An old postcard written by Laura Poindexter revealed that the house was named "Ferndale". Long time Clifton resident, Margaret Detwiler Webb lived and painted here as a young woman in the 1920's. Actress Helen Hayes vacationed here with her nephew and his wife in the 1960's. The facade of the house was restored in 2000.
Location. 38° 46.713′ N, 77° 23.382′ W. Marker is in Clifton, Virginia, in Fairfax County. Marker is on Chapel Street, 0.2 miles west of Main Street, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 12817 Chapel Street, Clifton VA 20124, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, November 15, 2017
2. Ferndale Marker
This is a photo of a previous iteration of the marker. While the information is identical, some of the formatting is slightly different.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, November 15, 2017
3. Ferndale Marker
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, November 15, 2017
4. Ferndale
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, November 15, 2017
5. The Cloak of Green
Beneath a cloak of green Ferndale has sheltered and nurtured a generation of the Rusnak family since 1982. After a century in a veil of white Ferndale returned to her original woodland green in 2014 by the loving hand of Charles M. Rusnak, Jr.
Credits. This page was last revised on March 28, 2022. It was originally submitted on January 2, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. This page has been viewed 266 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos:1. submitted on March 28, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on January 2, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.