MYSTERY PHOTO:   Where’s this tan building?

This century-old building with its tan brick facade has historical significance, but what is it?  Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.  In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our June 15 mystery showed the American Legion Hut in Hampton, where the sweet, ripe smells of watermelons now fill the air.  

A special nod to George Graf of Palmyra, Va., the only sleuth who correctly identified the building.  The historic marker erected in 2010 next to the building describes its significance, Graf notes:

“This 1933 cypress-log hut is the headquarters of American Legion Post #108. Legionnaires and other local citizens cut cypress trees for it, designed it, and built it, with funding from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a Depression-era federal program. State Senator George Warren donated this one-acre site to the Town of Hampton, which deeded it to American Legion Post #108 in 1940.

(Continued on reverse side) “This building, described at its opening as ‘one of the most beautiful in the state,’ hosted Friday night dances for many years. During World War II it was a dining hall for German prisoners of war held nearby. The hut, a fine example of vernacular log construction and long a center of social and cultural events in Hampton County, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.“

Thanks, George!

Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)  Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission.  Thanks.