T.C. Walker House

{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = T.C. Walker House

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = September 17, 2009{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 036-5053

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Gloucester va tc walker house.JPG

| caption = T.C. Walker House in 2013

| location = 1 Main St., Gloucester, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|37|24|47|N|76|31|19|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = c. {{Start date|1880}}, 1900

| architect OR builder =

| architecture = Greek Revival, Gothic Revival

| added = December 4, 2009

| area = {{convert|1.9|acre}}

| refnum = 09001050{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

T.C. Walker House is the historic home of a lawyer, county supervisor, and a school superintendent who was enslaved prior to the American Civil War.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/people/tcwalker.htm|title=Thomas Calhoun Walker (U.S. National Park Service)|website=www.nps.gov}} It is at 1 Main Street in Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia and was built about 1880, and is a two-story, U-shaped, frame vernacular dwelling with traces of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. It has a cross-gable roof, two-bay addition, and front porch. It was the home of Thomas Calhoun "T.C." Walker, who worked tirelessly to improve African-American land ownership and educational opportunities. As a lawyer he represented many African American clients. He purchased the home in 1900.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Gloucester/036-5053_TC_Walker_House_2009_NR_FINAL.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: T.C. Walker House |author=John V. Quarstein | date=June 2009 |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Gloucester/036-5053_Photos.htm Accompanying four photos] The house was donated to Hampton University in 1977.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazettejournal.net/index.php/news/mobilenewsarticle/effort_underway_to_revitalize_t.c._walker_house|title=Gazette-Journal {{!}} Effort underway to revitalize T.C. Walker House|website=www.gazettejournal.net|access-date=2018-09-10}}

Walker wrote an autobiography titled The Honey-Pod Tree.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/27/archives/he-sought-new-ways-for-the-old-south-the-honeypod-tree-the-life.html|title=He Sought New Ways for the Old South; THE HONEY-POD TREE: The Life Story of Thomas Calhoun Walker Edited by Florence L Lattimore 320 pp. New York: The John Day Company. $4.50.|first=Saunders|last=Redding|work=The New York Times |date=July 27, 1958|via=NYTimes.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pilotonline.com/history/vp-nw-whro-collaboration-confederate-names-middle-ground-20210228-ua3cyijcmzeavpvjacr4tiyxam-story.html|title=A murky legacy: Confederate generals who fought to uphold slavery but later helped Black Virginians|first=Lisa Vernon|last=Sparks|website=pilotonline.com}} He was buried at the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.