Bremo, also known as Bremo Plantation or Bremo Historic District, is a plantation estate covering over 1,500 acres (610 ha) on the west side of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The plantation includes three separate estates, all created in the 19th century by the planter, soldier, and reformer John Hartwell Cocke on his family's 1725 land grant. The large neo-palladian mansion at "Upper" Bremo was designed by Cocke in consultation with John Neilson, a master joiner for Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. The Historic District also includes two smaller residences known as Lower Bremo and Bremo Recess.
Pleasant View is a historic home located near Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five bay, brick dwelling in the Classical Revival style. It features Greek Revival style decorative details, front doors on both the first and second floors, plastered recessed panels between the floor levels, and a typical side-gable roof with wood cornice. Also on the property are a contributing late-19th century frame smokehouse, the remaining half of a "saddlebag" kitchen/quarters building, and a family cemetery.
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.
Glen Arvon, originally known as Glenarvon, is a historic plantation house and farm located near Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1836, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It measures 50 feet by 40 feet and is topped by a shallow hipped roof with balustrade. The front facade features a two-story Greek Doric order portico. Also on the property is the contributing two-story, brick servant's house. The house is a twin of Point of Fork, as they were built by brothers William and James Galt.
Point of Fork Plantation is a historic plantation house and farm located near Columbia, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1830, and is a two-story, five bay, brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It measures 50 feet by 40 feet and is topped by a shallow hipped roof with balustrade. The front facade features a large two-story tetrastyle Greek Doric order portico. Also on the property are a contributing servant's house and office. The house is a twin of Glen Arvon, as they were built by brothers William and James Galt. In March 1865, Federal troops under General Philip Sheridan occupied the plantation and Sheridan set up headquarters in the house.
Gum Creek is a historic home located near Columbia, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was built about 1797, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, center passage plan frame dwelling on a stone foundation. Two one-story, shed roofed additions were built after 1839. It features unpainted original interior woodwork, a basement kitchen and stone and brick end chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse, buggy shed, and the original stone-enclosed spring.
Melrose, also known as the Ellen Miyagawa House, is a historic home located near Fork Union, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was built in 1813, and is a 2-story, five bay, rectangular brick dwelling in the Federal style. It sits on an English basement and has a slate covered gable roof with pedimented ends. A 1+1⁄2-story frame addition was built in 1978.
Western View is a historic home located near Fork Union, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The original frame section was built about 1790, and expanded with a brick addition in 1824. The original section is a 1+1⁄2-story, two-bay, rectangular frame structure with a slate covered gable roof. The brick addition is a one-over-one wing with Greek Revival attributes. Also on the property are the contributing site of the outdoor kitchen with extant chimney, and the Henley/Johnson family cemetery.
Laughton is a historic home located near Kents Store, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The original section was begun about 1785. It was enlarged near the end of the 18th century, and in 1836, 1842, and 1976. The main section consists of a 1+1/2-story, two bay portion with a two-story, three bay addition. The house features a chimney laid in Flemish bond with double paved weatherings. The house was restored in 1976. Also on the property are the contributing boxwood alley nearly 20 feet tall leading to the front door, the remains of the foundation of an outdoor kitchen incorporated in an herb garden and the Shepherd family cemetery.
The Oaks is a historic home located near Kents Store, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was built between about 1809 and 1830. The rear ell is the original section, and is a two-story, brick structure. In 1830 the brick, single pile, two-story structure over a raised basement was built onto the south. The house has a slate covered gable roof. A small one-story weatherboard addition was built onto the rear about 1915. Also on the property are the contributing outdoor kitchen, a smokehouse, an icehouse, a latticed covered well, a barn, and the large Richardson/Bowles family cemetery.
Glen Burnie is a historic home located near Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was built in 1829, and is a two-story, three-bay, cruciform plan, gable-roofed brick structure with gable-end chimneys. The house was designed by General John Hartwell Cocke for Elizabeth Cary. The house has an eclectic mix of late Federal and Greek, Gothic, and Jacobean revival features. It has a mousetooth cornice, unusual pivoting windows, projecting towers and one-story porches on the south and north facade. Also on the property is the contributing Glen Burnie cemetery.
Fluvanna County Courthouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The district encompasses four contributing buildings. The courthouse was built in 1830–1831, and is a two-story, brick building in the form of a tetrastyle Roman Doric temple. It is five bays deep. The other contributing buildings are a small lawyer's office used as the Fluvanna County library and the stone jail house (1829), now the county museum.
Seay's Chapel Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was built between 1893 and 1902, and is a one-story, 30 feet by 40 feet, vernacular Carpenter Gothic style chapel. It features a slate gable roof with ornamental wooden brackets under the eaves and along the gables and a rectangular wooden panel design in the front and rear gables. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.
Locust Grove is a historic home located at Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The house was built in two phases, one before 1817 and another in 1837. The original section is a single-pile, two-story structure built of fieldstone with a side gable roof in the Federal style. Attached to it is the later 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, double-pile, fieldstone addition. The interior features Federal and Greek Revival style decorative details. Also on the property are the contributing stone spring house, a frame barn, a garage, a stone watering trough, and a stone chimney.
Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823 to 1830.
Hill Grove School is a historic school for African American children located at Hurt, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was built in 1915, and is a small, simple single-story, weatherboarded, light-frame building on a fieldstone foundation, with a low-pitched side-gable roof. It features a single-bay, tin-covered, shed roof porch supported by two-by-four lumber over the entrance. The school closed in the early 1960s.
Pleasant Grove, also known as Joseph Deyerle House, Deyerle Homeplace, and Glenvar is a historic home located near Salem in Roanoke County, Virginia. It was built in 1853, and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling. The front facade features a well-proportioned Ionic order portico with slender tapered, fluted columns. It also has an original sunroom measuring 7 feet by 14 feet. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen, spring house, smokehouse, servant's house, and privy.
Walnut Grove, also known as the Robert Preston House, is a historic plantation house located just outside Bristol in Washington County, Virginia. It was built about 1815, and is a two-story, Georgian style timber-frame dwelling covered with wood weatherboard. The house has a gable roof and has a one-story full-width porch. The Grove was built on the Walnut Grove property in 1857.
Mount Pleasant is a historic home located at Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built in 1887.
Mount Pleasant is a historic home located near Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1812, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five bay, brick Federal style dwelling. The four-bay, one-story southeastern wing, constructed of dressed-rubble limestone, was probably built about 1790. It was renovated in the 1930s and in 1979. Also on the property are the contributing brick, pyramidal-roofed smokehouse ; a large, frame, bank barn ; a frame wagon shed/corn crib ; a frame tenant house and garage ; an old well, no longer in use, with a circular stone wall and gable-roofed frame superstructure ; a substantial, brick, gable-roofed, one-story garage ; and the original road configuration from about 1790.
