Lynnhaven House (Wishart-Boush House)
Erected in 1725 for Francis Thelabell II, the visually engaging Wishart-Boush House (now known as the Lynnhaven House) in Virginia Beach is a rare surviving example of the type of […]
St. John’s Church Historic District
Popularly known as Church Hill, the restored neighborhood surrounding the colonial St. John’s Episcopal Church that comprised the St. John’s Church Historic District contains an assemblage of 19th-century domestic architecture […]
Morven Park
Located in the Catoctin Rural Historic District north of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Morven Park is best known as the home of Westmoreland Davis, governor of Virginia from 1918 to […]
Burlington
Burlington, a 700-acre plantation on the Mattaponi River in King William County, has been the property of the Gwathmey family since Owen Gwathmey II acquired the land in the mid-18th […]
Tuckahoe
The contrasting qualities of elegance, domesticity, and remoteness, all characteristic of Virginia’s colonial plantation life, are keenly felt at Tuckahoe. The eastern Goochland County plantation was one of several established […]
Walter Reed Birthplace
Dr. Walter Reed, conqueror of yellow fever, was born in 1851 in this cottage at Belroi, a Gloucester County crossroad. The tiny house, a rural, one-room vernacular dwelling, is typical […]
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park
Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia achieved significant victories at Fredericksburg in 1862 and Chancellorsville in 1863, but suffered an irreparable blow at the end of the latter […]
Woodlawn Plantation
The five-part mansion at Woodlawn Plantation was completed in 1806 on a site (in Fairfax County’s Woodlawn Cultural Landscapes Historic District) overlooking lands formerly part of Mount Vernon. Woodlawn Plantation […]
Port Royal Historic District
The tiny Rappahannock River community of Port Royal in Caroline County was a thriving tobacco port during colonial times. Named for Thomas Roy’s tobacco warehouse, the town was established in […]
Douthat State Park Historic District
Encompassing over 4,000 acres of scenic mountain lands, Douthat State Park in Alleghany and Bath counties was the first of six state parks established in Virginia by the Civilian Conservation […]
