Willowdale, also known as Smith Place, Gunther Farm, and Willow Dale, is a historic home located at Painter, Accomack County, Virginia. It is a two-story, five-bay, gambrel roofed, frame dwelling with brick ends. There is a two-bay, single story extension that provides service from a 1 1/2-story kitchen with a large brick cooking fireplace at the south end. The wing dates to the early-19th century. The main block is an expansion of a 17th-century patent house of 1 1/2-stories that now forms the parlor at the north end of the main block. The house is representative of the vernacular "big house, little house, colonnade, kitchen" style that was common in colonial homes on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Also on the property are the contributing ruins of a barn. Willowdale is one of the few remaining examples of the dwelling of an early colonial settler, landowner and farmer. The Smith family remained owners of Willowdale from 1666 until 2018.
East Belmont is a historic farm and national historic district located near Keswick, Albemarle County, Virginia. The district encompasses 3 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure. The original house, now the rear ell, was built about 1811–1814, and is a two-story, three bay, gable roofed frame structure. In 1834, a two-story, five-bay Federal style brick structure was added as the main house. A one-story, glass sunroom was added in the 1960s. The front facade features a two-story, pedimented portico. Also on the property are a contributing 19th-century corncrib, early 20th-century stone and frame barn, and an early 20th-century henhouse.
Locust Grove, also known as the Goodwin Farm, is a historic home located at Rapidan, Culpeper County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and expanded in at least four major building campaigns over the next half-century. It had its present configuration by 1840. The house is a 1 1/2-story, four bay, log and frame structure featuring a central chimney, two-room plan main block flanked by early gable-end lean-tos and rear additions. It has a steep gable roof with modern dormers. It was renovated in the 1970s. Also on the property is a contributing mid-19th century smokehouse.
Cherry Walk, also known as Cherry Row, is a historic home and farm complex located near Dunbrooke, Essex County, Virginia. The house is dated to the late-18th century, and is a 1 1/2-story, five bay, brick dwelling with a gambrel roof. Also on the property are the contributing two dairies, a smokehouse, a kitchen, a privy, a large wooden barn encasing an older barn, a plank construction storage shed, a ruinous blacksmith shop, and the sites of other old outbuildings.
Goochland County Court Square is a historic county courthouse and national historic district located at Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia. It includes three contributing buildings and one contributing site. The Goochland County Court House was built in 1826 by Dabney Cosby, an architect of the area. It is a two-story, temple-form brick structure with a projecting pedimented tetrastyle Tuscan order portico.
Buckshoal Farm is a property along with a historic home located near Omega, Halifax County, Virginia. The earliest section was built in the early-19th century, and is the two-story pitched-roof log section of the main residence. The larger two-story, pitched-roof section of the house with its ridge perpendicular to the older section was added in 1841. It features a porch that is configured to follows the shape of the ell and bay of the front of the house. The third two-story addition dates to circa 1910. Also on the property are the contributing log smoke house, well-house and a frame shed. Buckshoal Farm was the birthplace and favorite retreat of Governor William M. Tuck.
Church Quarter is a historic home located at Doswell, Hanover County, Virginia. It was built in 1843, and is a one-story, three-bay, gable-roof, log dwelling. It has exposed logs with V-notching and two exterior end chimneys. Also on the property are contributing two late-19th / early-20th century outbuildings and the ruins of a brick orangery, known locally as the flower house.
Cleremont Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built in two stages between about 1820 and 1835, and added onto subsequently in the 1870s. 1940s. and 1980s. It consists of a stone portion, a log portion, and a stone kitchen wing. It has a five bay, two-story, gable-roofed center section in the Federal style. A one-bay, one-story Colonial Revival-style pedimented entrance portico was built in the early 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing original 1 1/2-story, stuccoed stone dwelling (1761); a stone kitchen from the late 19th or early 20th century; a stuccoed frame tenant house built about 1940; a stone carriage mount; and a series of five stone walls.
Bloomington is a historic home located at Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia. The dwelling evolved into its present form from an original two-room, split-log dwelling dating to about 1790. The main block was built about 1832, and is a two-story, three-bay structure with steeply-pitched gable roof constructed over a raised brick basement. A one-story, gable-roofed addition was attached to the north wall of the main block about 1900. The house is a rare example of 18th-to-early-19th-century English frame construction which found expression in early Southern Colonial style. Also on the property are a contributing tobacco barn, horse barn, corn crib, and tool shed.
Prospect is a historic plantation house located near Topping, Middlesex County, Virginia. The house was constructed between 1820 and 1850, and is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a gable roof in the Federal style. Two 38-foot chimneys abut each end of the house and the front and rear facades have identical gable-roofed porticos. Also on the property are the contributing a 19th-century carriage house, an early 1900s farm shed, and the original brick-lined well.
Oak Grove is a historic plantation house located near Eastville, Northampton County, Virginia. The original section of the manor house was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story, gambrel-roofed colonial-period structure. It has a two-story Federal style wing added about 1811, and a two-story Greek Revival style wing added about 1840. The house was remodeled and enlarged in the 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing five early outbuildings, three 20th century farm buildings, and a well tended formal garden designed by the Richmond landscape architect Charles Gillette.
The Academy is a historic home located at Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1800, and is a 1½-story, brick house in the Tidewater Federal style. It is topped by a gabled standing seam metal roof. The interior preserves a large quantity of original woodwork including the original stair. Also on the property are the contributing early-19th century brick smokehouse and a barn (1929). The house was restored between 1994 and 1997. It is located in the Heathsville Historic District.
Cobbs Hall is a historic plantation house located at Kilmarnock, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built in 1853, on the foundations of an earlier dwelling of the same design. It is a two-story, five-bay, double pile brick dwelling with a gable roof. The front and rear facades feature similar porches supported by Tuscan order columns. The ends have two semi-exterior end chimneys flanking the peak of the gable. Also on the property are the contributing Cobbs Hall graveyard containing Lee family remains, the remains of a 1 1/2-story brick dwelling, and a brick meat house. Cobbs Hail is one of the noted Northern Neck plantations associated with the Lee family of Virginia since the middle of the 17th century.
Tetley is a historic home and farm complex located near Somerset, Orange County, Virginia. It was built about 1843, and is a two-story, five-bay, hipped-roof brick house on an English basement. The house has Federal and Greek Revival style design elements. The front facade features two-story, pedimented portico added in the early-20th century, along with a two-story west wing and polygonal bay. Also on the property are the contributing two ante bellum slave houses, a brick summer kitchen, and an unusual octagonal frame ice house.
Chestnut Hill is a historic home located at Orange, Orange County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a combination of the Italianate and Greek Revival styles. A Second Empire style mansard roof was added in 1891. The front facade features a central, one-story, one-bay porch with a balustraded deck above and balustraded decks with the same scroll-sawn balusters across the front. The historic floor plan is a double-pile center-passage plan with two interior chimneys serving four fireplaces on each floor. The house was moved to a new location, 150 feet away from its original site, when threatened with demolition in 2003. Also on the property is a small, one-story, single-bay, 19th-century contributing shed.
Rocklands is a historic home and farm complex located near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. The house was built about 1905, and underwent a major renovation under the direction of William Lawrence Bottomley in 1933–1935. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, Georgian Revival style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The front facade features a monumental Ionic order hexastyle portico. Also on the property are the contributing guest house ; a small service court designed by Bottomley and consisting of a garage, servant's house, woodshed, and tunnel; a 19th-century coach barn of wood-frame construction; the mid-19th century farm manager's house; Spencer Neale, Jr., Residence ; bank barn ; and a brick house (1822).
Berry Hill is a historic home and farm complex located near Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in several sections during the 19th and early 20th centuries, taking its present form about 1910. The original section of the main house consists of a two-story, three-bay structure connected by a hyphen to a 1+1⁄2-story wing set perpendicular to the main block. Connected by a hyphen is a one-story, single-cell wing probably built in the 1840s. Enveloping the front wall and the hyphen of the original house is a large, two-story structure built about 1910 with a shallow gambrel roof with bell-cast eaves. Located on the property are a large assemblage of contributing outbuildings including the former kitchen/laundry, the "lumber shed," the smokehouse, the dairy, a small gable-roofed log cabin, a chicken house, a log slave house, log corn crib, and a log stable.
Riverside is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built about 1850, and is a large 2 1/2-story, seven bay, "T"-shaped brick dwelling with Greek Revival, Italianate, and Colonial Revival design elements. It has a side-passage, double-pile plan with matching single-pile wings, with additions added in 1921, to the north and south. The front facade features a one-bay, hip-roofed, Greek Revival-style portico. The house has a hipped roof with dormers added in the early-20th century. Also on the property is the contributing early-20th century garage.
Lansdowne, also known as Retreat Farm and Backus House, is a historic home located near Fredericksburg, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The property is very near the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The original section was built about 1755, and enlarged in the early-19th century and in 1950. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, side gable-roofed, double-pile, wood-framed dwelling. It features tall exterior chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing board-and-batten, side-gabled frame bank barn (1920s), a cinderblock spring house and cinderblock pumphouse with an early pump, the remnants of a mid-19th century historic formal landscape including terracing, and an historic road trace.
Springdale is a historic plantation house located near Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia. The original section of the house may date to about 1750. Originally the house was a frame Georgian style two-story, side-passage gambrel roof dwelling with a brick cellar. A one-story shed addition was added in the late-18th or early-19th century. This section of the house was renovated between about 1774 and 1824. The house was expanded by 1840, with a 2 1/2-story, Federal style south wing and 1 1/2-story hyphen connecting the two wings. Also on the property is a contributing smokehouse and archaeological site.
