It was built for Major William T. Sutherlin in 1857–1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, stuccoed building in the Italian Villa style.

It features a one-story wooden porch, a shallow hipped roof surrounded by a heavy bracketed cornice and topped by a square cupola ornamented with pilasters and a bracketed cornice.

In the summer of 1960, Black students would decide that they wanted the library to be integrated, and staged a sit-in.

[5]Established in 1974, the museum focuses on art, history, and culture in the Dan River region.

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