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Many historic houses in Virginia are notable sites. The U.S. state of Virginia was home to many of America's Founding Fathers, four of the first five U.S. presidents, as well as many important figures of the Confederacy. As one of the earliest locations of European settlement in America, Virginia has some of the oldest buildings in the nation.
Was the third mansion of P.T Barnum, was demolished in 1889 for his new mansion, Marina. Samuel Clemens House (Mark Twain) 1874 Victorian Gothic: Edward Tuckerman Potter: Hartford: Today, a museum Marina 1889 Romanesque and Queen Anne: Longstaff and Hurd: Bridgeport: Was the fourth and last mansion of P.T Barnum in Bridgeport, was demolished in ...
A wood-frame structure, likely the original plantation house, was built before 1800. [5] After 1820, the original house was divided into a duplex and used as living quarters for slaves. [5] In the 1850s, a grand mansion, designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis, [6] was built in the Carpenter Gothic style for the Miller family. [5]
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]
Completed in 1892, Marble House measures 140,000 square feet and has 50 rooms. The construction alone cost $11 million in 1892, or around $380 million today when adjusted for inflation.. After the ...
The manor house built in the mid-18th century was a long gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure. The house at Tomahund resembled neighboring Tedington, and like Tedington it also had a two-level portico added. Although the 18th-century manor house no longer stands, Tomahund is a working plantation in the 21st century.
A portion of the east garden wall of the 20th century English-style garden at Chatham Manor, a former plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia. The property had a succession of owners until the 1920s when General Daniel Bradford Devore (1860–1956) and his wife, Helen Stewart Devore, undertook its restoration (and made significant changes).
In Virginia, beginning in 1871, under state constitutional changes after the American Civil War (1861–1865), cities became politically independent of the counties. An independent city in Virginia since then has been comparable to a county. Many agencies of the U.S. Government consider Virginia's independent cities county-equivalents.