Gothic Cottage

QA-41

This cottage, built ca. 1860, is one of the few Gothic Revival dwellings in Petersburg. Roger Pryor Campbell (1859-1956), a barber, and Carrie Bragg Campbell (1865-1958), a musician, married in 1890 and owned this house during the first half of the 20th century. Carrie Bragg Campbell was one of eight students in the first graduating class at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (later Virginia State University) in 1886. She taught music there from 1885 until 1888. In 1886, she became one of the first African American women to run a newspaper when she took over the editorship of the Virginia Lancet from her brother, George F. Bragg.

Department of Historic Resources, 2019

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Halifax Triangle and Downtown Commercial Historic District NRHP nomination (2019). Poplar Lawn Historic District NRHP nomination (1980). U.S. Census, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1910, 1920. Carrie Bragg Campbell death certificate (1958). Roger P. Campbell death certificate (1956). Carrie W. Bragg and Roger Pryor Campbell, Marriage Record, Petersburg, 5 Nov. 1890. City of Petersburg property records Petersburg Deed Book, 133:50, 188:92. Petersburg City Directories Edgar Toppin, Loyal Sons and Daughters: Virginia State University, 1882 to 1992 (Pictorial Heritage Publishing Company, 1992). Report of the Normal and Collegiate Institute to the Board of Education of the State of Virginia (1886). Ethel Maureen Norris, “Music in the Black and White Communities in Petersburg, Virginia, 1865-1900” (Ph.D. diss., The Ohio State University, 1994). “Bragg, George Freeman,” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, 2:187-189. New York Tribune, 19 March 1886. San Francisco Chronicle, 28 March 1886. Washington Bee, 5 June, 14 Aug. 1886. New York Freeman, 18 Sept. 1886, 22 Jan., 12 March 1887. Dallas Daily Herald, 21 Nov. 1887. The Afr-American [sic] Churchman, 6 Feb. 1886.