Christopher, a prominent lawyer, was born and died in Manchester when it was an independent city from Richmond.
"TO THE VOTERS OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.-- The office of commonwealth's attorney for the County of Chesterfield being within the range of my professional employment, would be for that reason, and that reason only, an acceptable position to me. I therefore accede to the requests of a number of voters, recently expressed, and declare myself a candidate for the suffrages of the people, at the election to be held on the fourth Thursday in May next, at which time the office is to be filled for the regular term of four years.
C. C. McRAE" [Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 May 1860, p. 1]
He was also a major landowner in and around Manchester. He lived in the Burwell-Vaden-McRae mansion on Porter Street.
"In the 1860s, C. C. McRae owned a 58-acre farm that probably encompassed parts of [another house, on 42nd Street].... His widow Ella McRae lived in the [42nd Street] house in the 1920s. According to oral tradition, the core of the present house was formed when two houses were joined together. Architectural evidence supports the oral tradition.... When the house was enlarged, most of the interior fabric, including the linen-fold paneling, wood trim and doors; elaborate fanlight in the first-floor passage; the heart-pine flooring; and the magnificent winding stair, was salvaged from the circa 1816 Burwell-Vaden-McRae House on nearby Porter Street." [from the National Register of Historic Places application for the Forest Hill neighborhood]
He is buried near much of his family in the Robert T. Brooke plot.
"TO THE VOTERS OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.-- The office of commonwealth's attorney for the County of Chesterfield being within the range of my professional employment, would be for that reason, and that reason only, an acceptable position to me. I therefore accede to the requests of a number of voters, recently expressed, and declare myself a candidate for the suffrages of the people, at the election to be held on the fourth Thursday in May next, at which time the office is to be filled for the regular term of four years.
C. C. McRAE" [Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 May 1860, p. 1]
He was also a major landowner in and around Manchester. He lived in the Burwell-Vaden-McRae mansion on Porter Street.
"In the 1860s, C. C. McRae owned a 58-acre farm that probably encompassed parts of [another house, on 42nd Street].... His widow Ella McRae lived in the [42nd Street] house in the 1920s. According to oral tradition, the core of the present house was formed when two houses were joined together. Architectural evidence supports the oral tradition.... When the house was enlarged, most of the interior fabric, including the linen-fold paneling, wood trim and doors; elaborate fanlight in the first-floor passage; the heart-pine flooring; and the magnificent winding stair, was salvaged from the circa 1816 Burwell-Vaden-McRae House on nearby Porter Street." [from the National Register of Historic Places application for the Forest Hill neighborhood]
He is buried near much of his family in the Robert T. Brooke plot.
Christopher, a prominent lawyer, was born and died in Manchester when it was an independent city from Richmond.
"TO THE VOTERS OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.-- The office of commonwealth's attorney for the County of Chesterfield being within the range of my professional employment, would be for that reason, and that reason only, an acceptable position to me. I therefore accede to the requests of a number of voters, recently expressed, and declare myself a candidate for the suffrages of the people, at the election to be held on the fourth Thursday in May next, at which time the office is to be filled for the regular term of four years.
C. C. McRAE" [Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 May 1860, p. 1]
He was also a major landowner in and around Manchester. He lived in the Burwell-Vaden-McRae mansion on Porter Street.
"In the 1860s, C. C. McRae owned a 58-acre farm that probably encompassed parts of [another house, on 42nd Street].... His widow Ella McRae lived in the [42nd Street] house in the 1920s. According to oral tradition, the core of the present house was formed when two houses were joined together. Architectural evidence supports the oral tradition.... When the house was enlarged, most of the interior fabric, including the linen-fold paneling, wood trim and doors; elaborate fanlight in the first-floor passage; the heart-pine flooring; and the magnificent winding stair, was salvaged from the circa 1816 Burwell-Vaden-McRae House on nearby Porter Street." [from the National Register of Historic Places application for the Forest Hill neighborhood]
He is buried near much of his family in the Robert T. Brooke plot.
"TO THE VOTERS OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.-- The office of commonwealth's attorney for the County of Chesterfield being within the range of my professional employment, would be for that reason, and that reason only, an acceptable position to me. I therefore accede to the requests of a number of voters, recently expressed, and declare myself a candidate for the suffrages of the people, at the election to be held on the fourth Thursday in May next, at which time the office is to be filled for the regular term of four years.
C. C. McRAE" [Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 May 1860, p. 1]
He was also a major landowner in and around Manchester. He lived in the Burwell-Vaden-McRae mansion on Porter Street.
"In the 1860s, C. C. McRae owned a 58-acre farm that probably encompassed parts of [another house, on 42nd Street].... His widow Ella McRae lived in the [42nd Street] house in the 1920s. According to oral tradition, the core of the present house was formed when two houses were joined together. Architectural evidence supports the oral tradition.... When the house was enlarged, most of the interior fabric, including the linen-fold paneling, wood trim and doors; elaborate fanlight in the first-floor passage; the heart-pine flooring; and the magnificent winding stair, was salvaged from the circa 1816 Burwell-Vaden-McRae House on nearby Porter Street." [from the National Register of Historic Places application for the Forest Hill neighborhood]
He is buried near much of his family in the Robert T. Brooke plot.
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