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Bolling Block - 115, 145, 155, 165 E. Main Street - The birthplace of former First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson consists of three two-story units with a shared single parapeted front and a false third story. History dictates that the structure was originally built by Farmers Bank of Virginia around 1845. The building was acquired by Dr. Archibald Bolling of Bedford, Virginia, in 1860, after losing their plantation home in Bedford, Virginia, following the Civil War. Bolling's widow, Anne E. Bolling, and his son and daughter-in-law, Judge William H. and Sallie W. Bolling moved into the building in 1866. Edith Bolling was born in the second story apartment in 1872 and lived there until marrying her first husband, Norman Galt. She would later marry President Woodrow Wilson during the latter of his first term in the White House.