Ossian Hall was one of three large residences, along with Oak Hill, and Ravensworth, owned by the Fitzhugh family in Fairfax County.

Ossian Hall was located north of Braddock Road and east of the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495).

Francis Asbury Dickins, a Washington attorney and son of Secretary of the United States Senate Asbury Dickins, used the home as a summer residence until the outbreak of the Civil War, when it became his year-round residence.

[3] Joseph L. Bristow, an American politician from Kansas, purchased Ossian Hall in 1918 and died there on July 14, 1944.

On September 3, 1959, Ossian Hall was burned as a training exercise for the Annandale Fire Department.