The Wormeley-Lee-Montague House, a colonial one and a half story building dating to about 1747, is the town's oldest post and beam structure and contrasts with the Marble House as an example of different American architectural periods. In 1791, Revolutionary War diplomat and signer of the Treaty of Alliance with France Dr. Arthur Lee acquired Lansdaown in town and also purchased this building, which is believed to have served as his office. At his death, Lee left his estate and the house to his brother Richard Henry Lee, author of the Resolution for Independence and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The structure is owned today by the Montague family, who also own the town's colonial customhouse. Across the street, the Marble House reflects the town's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century housing spurt, when sea captains and owners of sailing schooners home-ported their vessels on Urbanna Creek and built homes in town. Built about 1905 by Lord Byron Van Wagnen, known as L.B., who was born in Urbanna on July 25, 1861, it was financed through a lucrative pile driving business he ran with his father David and their investments in sailing schooners and steam powered carrier vessels. He built the Marble House with bricks, wood, and marble brought from Baltimore on the Van Wagnens' sailing schooners, and the marble on the porches and basement floors came from homes destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Other town houses built by sea captains and sailing vessel owners included the present Atherston Hall Bed and Breakfast on Prince George Street, built about 1880 by Captain J.H. Bohannon; Urbanna Creek Bed and Breakfast on Watling Street, built about 1890 by Captain E.S. Tomlinson; and the Russell A. Davis House on Watling Street, built about 1910, along with the Make Thyme store building on Prince George Street, built in 1925, both built by Davis, a lumberman and owner of several schooners.