Camden is an Italian Villa-style house on the Rappahannock River just downriver of Port Royal, Virginia. Built 1857–1859, it is one of the nation's finest examples of an Italianate country house. It is located on the southeast bank of the Rappahannock River, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of the intersection of Camden Road and United States Route 17. Camden was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its architecture.
Cliffside is a historic home located near Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built in 1835, and is a two-story, brick central passage plan dwelling on a high basement in the Federal style. A side passage rear ell was added between about 1850 and 1860. Both sections have low-pitched gable roofs and the front facade features an original single-story, tetrastyle Greek Revival portico. Also on the property are a contributing structure, the "Ginger House", a one-story frame office/schoolhouse probably erected in the mid-19th century, and the family cemetery. The house served as General Philip Sheridan's headquarters during the American Civil War.
Keswick is a historic plantation house located near Powhatan, in Chesterfield County and Powhatan County, Virginia, USA. It was built in the early-19th century, and is an "H"-shaped, two-story, gable-roofed, frame-with-weatherboard building. The house is supported on brick foundations and has a brick exterior end chimney on each gable. Also on the property are a contributing well house, a smokehouse, the circular "slave quarters," a kitchen, a two-story brick house, a shed, and a laundry.
Beach Station a national historic district located near Chesterfield, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The district includes six contributing buildings and one contributing site in the Village of Beach. They were all constructed about 1890 and are two single-family dwellings, a post office, a railway depot, an outbuilding, two railroad shanties, and the ruins of the former general store. Beach Station was accessible from the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad later named the Tidewater and Western Railroad. Leasing arrangements had been made with the Brighthope Railway company which was sold to become the Farmville and Powhatan. The district represents an unusual collection of late-nineteenth-century buildings in their historic surroundings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Powhatan is a historic home located near Five Forks, James City County, Virginia. The house was designed by its owner Richard Taliaferro and built about 1750. It is a two-story, five bay by two bay Georgian style brick dwelling. It has a hipped roof with dormers and features two massive interior end T-shaped chimneys. The house was gutted by fire during the American Civil War. It was thoroughly restored in 1948.
Belle Isle is a historic plantation house located near Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia. It was built about 1759, and consists of a two-story, three bay, brick central section with one-story flanking wings. The Colonial style dwelling has a hipped roof pierced by two tall interior end chimneys, and surrounded at its base by the original modillion cornice. Also on the property are two original one-story brick dependencies set perpendicular to the facade of the house. The original interior woodwork was removed in 1922, and installed in the Winterthur Museum in 1941.
Boyd's Tavern, also known as Boyd Tavern, Exchange Hotel, and Boydton Hotel, is a historic inn and tavern located at Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It is a rambling two-story, frame structure built in at least three stages during the 19th century. The earliest section is the central section and it dates to about 1800. The front facade features a full-length two-story porch with sawn-work decoration.
Windsor is a historic plantation complex located near Cascade, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The house was completed in 1862, and is a two-story, five bay Georgian style brick dwelling, with Italianate style ornamentation. It has a shallow hipped roof and double-pile, central-hall plan. The main section is flanked by one-story, one bay wings. Also on the property are the contributing original school / playhouse, kitchen, smoke house, laundry, gas house, two slave houses, and a spring house, barn / horse stable, Gris Mill.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built between 1842 and 1850, and is a one-story, vernacular Gothic Revival brick church building painted white. It features a stepped gable parapet, a half-octagonal apse which served as a vestry, and four tall window bays interspaced with slim buttresses. It also contains a cemetery in the back yard and north side of the church.
French's Tavern, also known as Swan's Creek Plantation, Indian Camp, Harris's Store, and The Coleman Place, is a historic house and tavern located near Ballsville, Powhatan County, Virginia. The two-story, frame building complex is in five distinct sections, with the earliest dated to about 1730. The sections consist of the main block, the wing, the annex, the hyphen and galleries. It was built as the manor home for a large plantation, and operated as an ordinary in the first half of the 19th century.
Red Lane Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built in 1832, and is a 1 1/2-story, log building set on a brick foundation. The main block has a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. It has a 1 1/2-story kitchen connect to the main block by a one-story addition. The building housed an ordinary from 1836 to 1845. It is representative of a Tidewater South folk house.
Blenheim is a historic home located near Ballsville, Powhatan County, Virginia. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, U-shaped vernacular frame dwelling. The earliest section is dated to the 18th century, with the two 19th-century wings, dating to 1803–06 and the mid-1830s. Three minor 20th-century additions have also been constructed. Also on the property is a contributing smokehouse.
Beaumont is a historic home located near Michaux, Powhatan County, Virginia. It consists of a two-story, five-bay, central-passage frame structure built in 1811, with a two-story rear brick addition built about 1839. The front facade features a two-tier portico. The main block has a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. The property was acquired in 1937 by "Beaumont Farms" as a reform school for boys. The property is under the jurisdiction of the Virginia Department of Corrections and serves as the Beaumont Learning Center.
Norwood is a historic plantation house located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built in the 18th century and remodeled about 1835. It is a two-story, five bay, Federal style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The remodeling included the addition of flanking two-story wings and a two-story rear extension. The front facade features a sheltering porch with coupled Ionic order columns, marble paving, and granite steps. Also on the property are the contributing office, plantation kitchen, and privy.
Paxton is a historic home located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built about 1819, and is a two-story, three bay, Federal style brick I-house dwelling. It has a 1 1/2-story side wing. Also on the property are the contributing brick smokehouse, two small early-19th century one-room-plan frame dwellings, a 19th-century brick and frame icehouse, a late-19th century frame barn, and a family cemetery.
Provost is a historic home located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1800, as a 1 1/2-story, three bay, frame dwelling. It was expanded by an additional three bays in the mid-19th century. The building housed a general store that operated there from at least 1867 until about 1945, and a post office from 1902 to 1939. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse with attached wash house, a corn house and a machine shed.
Rosemont, also known as Taylor's Seat and Hardscrabble, is a historic home located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built in 1898, and is a 2 1/2-story, frame dwelling in the Queen Anne / Stick Style. It features Gothic Revival detailing, varying window types, stained glass, wainscoting and a plethora of fireplaces. Also on the property are the contributing original frame stable and cemetery.
Somerset is a historic home located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built in three sections, with the earliest dated to about 1775. It is a 1 1/2-story, four bay frame dwelling with a Hall and chamber plan. Also on the property are the contributing well, corn crib, and cemetery.
Powhatan Courthouse Historic District is a county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. The district includes four contributing buildings. The Powhatan County Court House was built in 1848–1849, and is a stuccoed temple-form Greek Revival style building measuring approximately 40 feet by 54 feet. There is strong circumstantial evidence that it is the work of Alexander Jackson Davis. Associated with the courthouse are the contributing former clerk's office, a "T"-shaped brick structure dated to the late-18th century; the early-19th century former jail; and Scott's or Powhatan Tavern, a large late-18th century tavern, a 2 1/2-story, brick structure.
Dalton Theatre Building is a historic theatre building located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a three-story, five bay, brick commercial building with a flat roof topped by a one-story square central tower. At the rear of the building was a gable-roofed auditorium and a plain five-story equipment tower serving the stage. The auditorium is designed in the Beaux Arts style. The theater was built for vaudeville, then showed motion pictures into the 1960s. The auditorium section of the building collapsed in 1982.
