…out along Chantilly Parkway, from wince the parkway took its name, built circa 1835. When speeding down the parkway, you can still see the old house if you know the exact instant to look. During the latter part of the previous century, the structure was often rented out as a party setting, and I have attended (sometimes hosted) many grand affairs there. Dr. Thomas B. Taylor bought Chantilly from the Ashurst family and enlarged it. Thomas married a French lass, who named their homestead “Chantilly”, which is a French term for “Cream lightly sweetened and whipped”. Dr. Taylor left the house and plantation to his sister’s son William Taylor Charles. It has stayed in the family and is now the residence of W.T. Charles’ great great grandson.
And no, this is not a current picture; I couldn’t seem to get one. Rather, this is a loaner from a descendant of the house.
-Charles Humphries & Suzanne Samuel Israel
I remember driving down to the house and going into the house it had beautiful paintings and the furniture was timeless beauty and he told us about the parties that were there and large table in a room and the windows had scratches on some of them by the women who had diamond rings I am surprised they took the marker down