Belmead
New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis designed the grand romantic Powhatan County mansion at Belmead for Philip St. George Cocke in 1845. Although its pinnacles and other decorative elements have […]
Washington Street Methodist Church
Erected in 1842, the Washington Street Methodist Church in the city of Petersburg was for many years the state’s leading church of its denomination. Here was held the first General […]
Singers Glen Historic District
This idyllic village of Singers Glen in Rockingham County began when Joseph Funk moved here in the early 19th century and established a publishing firm for Mennonite religious tracts and […]
The Tunker House
This plain Shenandoah Valley brick farmhouse is a relic of the early German Baptist Brethren, or Dunkers, known originally in the area of the Rockingham County town of Broadway as […]
St. Thomas’ Church
This expression of Classical Revivalism is the successor to the original church of St. Thomas’ Parish, demolished after the disestablishment. Erected 1833-34, St. Thomas’ Church originally lacked its Tuscan portico […]
Somerset Christian Church
An unaltered example of a mid-19th-century country church, the diminutive Somerset Christian Church building was erected ca. 1857 to serve a small but active community of the Christian denomination in […]
Waddell Memorial Presbyterian Church
Named in honor of James Waddell, Orange County’s blind preacher, this country church is Virginia’s finest specimen of Carpenters’ Gothic architecture. A forest of spires sprouts from the nave, transepts, […]
St. Stephen’s Church
One of the architectural highlights of the village of Heathsville (the Northumberland County seat) is St. Stephen’s Church, an unusually pure example of the wooden Carpenter Gothic style popular throughout […]
Kirkland Grove Campground
Named for the local Baptist preacher, Dr. William Heath Kirk, who was active in the Northumberland County area from 1845 to 1884, Kirkland Grove is one of the state’s few […]
Glebe of Hungars Parish
Virginia’s colonial glebe houses normally served as residences for parish parsons and usually exhibited the same care in design, execution, and detailing found in the churches themselves. The Hungars Parish […]
