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Blenheim is a historic home and farm complex located at Blenheim, Albemarle County, Virginia.The once very large surrounding plantation was established by John Carter.Late in the 18th century, his son Edward Carter became the county's largest landowner, and in addition to public duties including service in the Virginia General Assembly built a mansion on this plantation where he and his family ...
Historic Blenheim is a c. 1859 brick farm house designed in the Greek Revival style and located in City of Fairfax, Virginia.During the American Civil War, Union soldiers were often encamped on the grounds surrounding the house and utilized it as part of a reserve hospital system.
Blenheim is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia. [1] Blenheim, the home of politician and diplomat Andrew Stephenson was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [2] Another historic site Historic Blenheim is located considerably north in Fairfax County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The Library of Virginia has also acquired some of the Carter family papers. [15] Carter's Blenheim manor house disappeared before 1840, and Congressman Andrew Stevenson acquired the underlying land and erected a now-historic house.
Blenheim Vineyards is located on the historic Virginia farm claimed in 1730 by Secretary of the Virginia Colony John Carter who had a grant for 9,350 acres of land in Albemarle County, Virginia just south of Monticello near what is now known as Carter's Mountain. [1]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Blenheim is a historic home located near Ballsville, Powhatan County, Virginia. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, U-shaped vernacular frame dwelling. The earliest section is dated to the 18th century, with the two 19th-century wings, dating to 1803–06 and the mid-1830s.