City Directories and History: 1964 – Henry Savage Jr.
“Bloomsbury”, circa 1854 was built by Colonel James Chesnut, owner of Mulberry Plantation, as an in-town summer home. Both he and his wife, Mary Cox – Chesnut, died at Bloomsbury in the late 1860’s. The house is reported to be similar to that of Mrs. Chesnut’s childhood (Bloombury) on the Delaware River, near Trenton, N.J. Deeds state Thomas E. Haile
conveyed the property to James Chesnut on March 15, 1854. For many years it has been the year-round home of several Camden families. The home was heavily renovated by John Weeks of New York in circa 1930 and has long been the home of Henry Savage, Jr. and his wife Dee. The porch columns are each made of a single piece of solid pine. The porch floor is also solid pine, one piece measuring fifty feet. The above-ground brick basement is divided into two rooms with a central hall, identical to the floor plan of the rooms directly above it. Colonel Chesnut’s son, James, was one of Camden’s six Confederate generals to whom a monument stands in Rectory Square. [Courtesy of the Camden Tour Book]
In circa 1960, the Historic American Building Survey project took note of the brick outbuilding at Bloomsburg.
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