Ossian Hall was built on the
Ravensworth land grant by Nicholas Fitzhugh, son of Henry Fitzhugh. In 1804,
Dr. David Stuart, a commissioner for the
Federal City, purchased Ossian Hall and relocated there with his wife,
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, and their children.
Francis Asbury Dickins, a Washington attorney and son of Secretary of the United States Senate
Asbury Dickins, used the home as a summer residence until the outbreak of the
Civil War, when it became his year-round residence. All three of the Fitzhugh estates were protected by orders from both sides throughout the war.
Joseph L. Bristow, an American politician from
Kansas, purchased Ossian Hall in 1918 and died there on July 14, 1944. On September 3, 1959, Ossian Hall was burned as a training exercise for the Annandale Fire Department. ==Image gallery==