Poplar Lawn Historic District
The Poplar Lawn Historic District began as a fashionable 19th-century Petersburg neighborhood developed around a two-block public park originally known as Poplar Lawn, and now called Central Park. The park […]
Ben Venue
Dominating a hilltop in Rappahannock County with broad views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and anchoring the Ben Venue Rural Historic District, Ben Venue, well known for its row of […]
Rocklands
Occupying a long, narrow valley west of Gordonsville in Orange County, Rocklands boasts a porticoed Georgian Revival mansion set amid spacious grounds and unusually scenic fields and pastures that once […]
Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District
Encompassing roughly forty square miles of Piedmont countryside, the Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District in Orange County is one of Virginia’s best-preserved cultural landscapes. The rolling, semi mountainous terrain is broken […]
Germanna Site
Following his term as the colony’s lieutenant governor, Alexander Spotswood resided at his Spotsylvania (later Orange) County estate where in the 1720s he erected a brick and stone mansion with […]
Frascati
Frascati, built in 1821-23 for Supreme Court justice and statesman Philip Pendleton Barbour, is one of the architectural monuments of the Piedmont. With its detailed specifications surviving, the Orange County […]
Springfield
Springfield is a Federal-style house dominating a level tract of land on the edge of the town of Heathsville in Northumberland County. Erected in 1828 by merchant William Harding, the […]
Wheatland
Wheatland was built in 1840 as the centerpiece of a 1,300-acre plantation in Northumberland County. One of the Northern Neck’s most sophisticated antebellum houses, Wheatland was originally the home of […]
Grapeland
Northampton County’s Grapeland belongs to the Eastern Shore’s important group of architecturally sophisticated Federal-style houses that includes Brownsville, Kerr Place, and Wharton Place, among others. The distinguishing features of these […]
Swannanoa
Richmond businessman and philanthropist Maj. James H. Dooley built the palatial mountaintop villa of Swannanoa as a summer home for himself and his wife, Sallie May. Inspired by the Villa […]
