Woodside (Buckingham, Virginia)

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Woodside
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Sign at the entrance to the property, April 2017
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LocationVA 631 N side, 0.5 mi. SW of jct. with US 60, Buckingham, Virginia
Coordinates 37°32′56″N78°32′59″W / 37.54889°N 78.54972°W / 37.54889; -78.54972
Area62.1 acres (25.1 ha)
Builtc. 1860;164 years ago (1860)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No. 93000040 [1]
VLR No.014-0041
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 16, 1993
Designated VLRDecember 9, 1992 [2]

Woodside is a historic plantation house located at Buckingham, Buckingham County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1860, and is a two-story, five-bay, T-shaped frame dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It consists of a projecting three-bay, pedimented pavilion with flanking one-bay, hip-roofed wings. It has a hipped roof and is sheathed in weatherboard siding. In 1937 a kitchen wing was added to the rear elevation of the dwelling. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse (c. 1860), a covered well and the sites of an icehouse, kitchen, dairy, and corncrib. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System  (#93000040)". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register - Woodside". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  3. Nadine Golgosky (June 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Woodside" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2013-06-08. and Accompanying photo Archived 2012-09-26 at the Wayback Machine