Dover Slave Quarter Complex

Dover Slave Quarter Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Two of the houses
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Location	845 Dover Rd., Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
Coordinates	37°41′28″N77°54′32″W / 37.69111°N 77.90889°W / 37.69111; -77.90889
Area	309.5 acres (125.3 ha)
Built	1842 (1842)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	02001005 [1]
VLR No.	037-5012
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 15, 2002
Designated VLR	March 14, 2001 [2]

The Dover Slave Quarter Complex is a set of five historic structures located on Brookview Farm near Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. They were built as one-story, two-unit, brick structures with steep gable roofs for housing African-American slaves. The houses are arranged in a wide arc, measuring 360 ft (110 m) in length. The center dwelling had a frame second-story added and its brick walls covered by siding when it was converted to an overseer's house. It has a recent rear addition.

In addition to the center dwelling, one of the former slave dwellings serves as the farm office, one serves as a woodworking shop, and the remaining two are used for storage. Also on the farm are the two early 20th-century contributing farm structures; one is an impressively long dairy barn, and there are two tenant houses, silos, and storage buildings. ^[3]

The structures were listed as a group on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
3. Calder Loth and Jean McRae (May 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dover Slave Quarter Complex" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo