The Federal style tone, "Manor" house and its accessory buildings are the visible reminders of
Ben
Lomond Farm, which was begun in about 1830 by Benjamin Tasker Chinn, the grandson of
Robert "Councillor" Carter. Ben Lomond is one of the few remaining Carter family houses in an
area which once exhibited such fine country residences as Portici, Pittsylvania, Hazel Plain,
Mountain View, Elmwood, Sudley and Woodland. The house served as a hospital during the First and Second Battles of Manassas. The small
stone
accessory building west of the house is
thought to have been a slave quarter. In 1980, this building was moved by Prince William
County
from its original site east of the house to save it from demolition.
Erected 1981