Oakley Hill

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Oakley Hill
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LocationVA 156 S side, 2500 ft. W of jct. with VA 643, near Mechanicsville, Virginia
Coordinates 37°35′43″N77°20′24″W / 37.59528°N 77.34000°W / 37.59528; -77.34000 Coordinates: 37°35′43″N77°20′24″W / 37.59528°N 77.34000°W / 37.59528; -77.34000
Area100 acres (40 ha)
Built1839 (1839)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference # 94000459 [1]
VLR #042-0137
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 19, 1994
Designated VLRMarch 10, 1994 [2]

Oakley Hill is a historic plantation house located near Mechanicsville, Hanover County, Virginia. It was built about 1839 and expanded in the 1850s. It is a two-story, frame I-house dwelling in the Greek Revival style. On the rear of the house is a 1910 one-story ell. The house sits on a brick foundation, has a standing seam metal low gable roof, and interior end chimneys. The front facade features a one-story front porch with four Tuscan order columns and a Tuscan entablature. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and servants' house. [3]

Mechanicsville, Virginia Census-designated place in Virginia, United States

Mechanicsville is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. The population was 36,348 during the 2010 census, up from 30,464 at the 2000 census.

Hanover County, Virginia County in the United States

Hanover County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 106,374. Its county seat is Hanover Courthouse.

I-house

The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk architecture. He identified and analyzed the type in his 1936 study of Louisiana house types. He chose the name "I-house" because of its common occurrence in the rural farm areas of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, all states beginning with the letter "I". He did not use the term to imply that this house type originated in, or was restricted to, those three states. It is also referred to as Plantation Plain style.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Calder Loth (January 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Oakley Hill" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo