Haw Branch

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Haw Branch
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Haw Branch, September 2013
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LocationNorth of Amelia off VA 667, near Amelia Courthouse, Virginia
Coordinates 37°24′36″N78°01′22″W / 37.41000°N 78.02278°W / 37.41000; -78.02278 Coordinates: 37°24′36″N78°01′22″W / 37.41000°N 78.02278°W / 37.41000; -78.02278
Area98 acres (40 ha)
Builtc. 1748 (1748), c. 1815
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 73001992 [1]
VLR No.004-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 2, 1973
Designated VLROctober 17, 1972 [2]

Haw Branch is a historic plantation house located near Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia. The earliest section of the house dates to 1748. It was enlarged and expanded after the Revolutionary War. The house consists of a five-bay central block with hipped roof and exterior-end chimneys, flanked by symmetrical three-bay wings with hipped roofs. It was restored in 1965. The house features finely detailed Federal-style interiors added about 1815. Also on the property are a contributing little school house, a rectangular building with a massive central chimney housing the kitchen and weaving room, and a smokehouse on the eastern end of the row of dependencies. [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmark8 Commission Staff (September 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Haw Branch" (PDF). and Accompanying photo