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| This photo shows the A. Z. Litz House in Tazewell, Virginia, once the property of Colonel A. J. May. Located on Marion Avenue, it overlooks several acres of well-landscaped property. It was built by John W. Johnson sometime before 1859. May purchased the house sometime during the 1870s. In the 1890s he remodeled it, adding a stately Greek portico. Its eighteen rooms include a large dining room, a ballroom, and a conservatory. When I visited the house in 1994, it was empty. After Colonel May died in 1903, his widow, Nelle Davidson May, converted the house to a private school. When this venture failed, she moved back to Prestonsburg and built the house on Arnold Avenue now owned by H. D. Fitzpatrick, Jr. |