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Belle Air Plantation, c. 1700, Charles City County; Bell House, 1882, Westmoreland County — summer home of Alexander Graham Bell; Belle Grove, 1790s, Pittsylvania County - a Federal style home owned by the Whitmell P. Tunstall family [3] Belle Grove, 1790, King George County - a house in Port Conway, birthplace of James Madison
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.
Tar Bay One of only a few brick homes built on the south bank of the James during the colonial period, the Tar Bay mansion was a high style Georgian plantation house built in 1746 by Daniel Colley on a bluff overlooking a broad reach of the James just west of Coggins Point known as Tar Bay. The house was a two-story five-bay, hip-roofed brick ...
Westover Plantation is a historic colonial tidewater plantation located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia.Established in c. 1730–1750, it is the homestead of the Byrd family of Virginia.
In 1971, the Penn family sold the home to the Penn House Preservation Foundation, which later conveyed it to the Town of Abingdon. The William King Regional Arts Center managed the home beginning in 1995. Today, the Fields-Penn 1860 House museum is operated by the Town of Abingdon [8] The Tavern 222 E. Main St. 1779
The oldest house of worship in Virginia north of Quantico, completed by undertaker James Wren and received as finished by the vestry on December 20, 1769. Wren's plan was also used (with modifications) for Christ Church in Alexandria and Pohick Church in Lorton. Morven Park: Leesburg, Virginia: ca. 1780 The home of Virginia Governor ...
In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Saltbox style homes and Cape Cod style homes were some of the simplest of homes constructed in the New England colonies.
In Mansions of Virginia, architectural historian Thomas Tileston Waterman describes the plantation house as "the largest and finest of American houses of the colonial period." [ 3 ] Through much of the 18th century and 19th centuries, and during the American Civil War , Rosewell plantation hosted the area's most elaborate formal balls and ...