Blandome

Atop a hill at the eastern end of Henry Street, this grand home was built in the late 1820s by Jacob Fuller, a classical scholar and librarian at Washington College. John Randolph Tucker, a founder of Washington & Lee University Law School, purchased the Federal-style home in 1872. He remodeled it in the Italianate style and named it Blandome. Harry Lee Walker, a prominent black businessman, acquired the home in 1917. The home is on the National Historic Register.