Architect Marshall Swain Wells (1900-1974) is noted primarily for his upscale residential designs in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, although he designed houses and other buildings elsewhere in Virginia, including Richmond, Alexandria, Farmington, and Yorktown. During his four decades of practice, Wells used his skills in new, mostly Colonial Revival, design to offer a balanced and thoughtful approach to the expansion, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic houses. The Work of Marshall Swain Wells Architect Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) Form establishes the overarching historical significance of Wells’s work and facilitates individual listing in the state and national registers of the many Wells houses and churches that are concentrated in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.