Conner House

The Blooms House once sat on a large farm known as Blooms Hill. Conner House is the more modern name for the house named after the owner of the house between 1914 and 1973, E. R. Conner. It has also been called the Duncan House after a tenent who was renting it during the Civil War. During this time the property was owned by Lewis B. Butler. Butler owned several properties in the area, including the farm known as Birmingham Green, just up the road.

Lewis B. Butler is buried on land near Buckhall on property once owned by his father. Read more about him on the Butler Cemetery page.

Photographs

This railroad map from 1854 shows Butler (Lewis B.) as the owner of the land where the Conner house sits. The house was constructed about 1820 with an addition added in 1855. The Railroad cut through the property leaving about 25 acres east of the railroad track. This map also shows the house known as Tudor Hall. This area was known as Tudor Hall before the railroad came through and the Civil War. The area was named after a magnificant house called Tudor Hall. Lewis B. Butler also owned the Tudor Hall house for a time. He purchased it for about $6,000.

This photo was taken in 1862 by 22 year old photographer Timothy O'Sullivan. In July 1862 O'Sullivan was following John Pope's Northern Virginia Campaign. By July 1863 O'sullivan was in Gettysburg and took his most famous photo, "The Harvest of Death,". O'sullivan died of tuberculosis in 1882, at age 42.

This picture shows the house in the late 1970s. The property was purchased by the Town of Manassas Park in 1973, the Town didn't become an independant city until 1975, the same year as Manassas. The house was being lived in until about 1968. A chainlink fence was installed around the house in 1976.

This picture was taken by Ed Stallknecht in the late 1970s. It shows the recently completed Osbourn Park High School and in the lower left is the Conner House. Note the lack of development.

 

This picture was taken by Ed Stallknecht in the late 1970s. It shows the recently completed Osbourn Park High School and in the lower right is the Conner House. Note the lack of development, Manassas Drive doesn't continue across Euclid Dr.

This picture was likely taken in the late 1970s.

This picture was likely taken in the late 1970s.

 

Modern Day Photographs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interior Pictures taken August 3, 2021