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Overlooking Hampton Roads, Roseland Manor was a salient example of a Chateauesque, Queen Anne-style mansion. Because it was suffering the hardships of Reconstruction, Virginia saw few displays of conspicuous consumption in domestic architecture in the 1870s and 1880s. Roseland Manor thus was possibly a unique survival of what was a period of architectural ostentation elsewhere in the nation. The huge dwelling was designed by architect Arthur Crooks and built in 1886-1887 for Harrison Phoebus. Because of his extensive civic contributions to the area, the nearby community of Chesapeake City was renamed Phoebus in his honor. Roseland Manor was destroyed by fire in 1985.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
