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Location of Amherst County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Amherst County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia, United States.
Location of Botetourt County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Botetourt County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.
Belle Grove, 1790, King George County - a house in Port Conway, birthplace of James Madison; Bellwood, c. 1800, Chesterfield County, former plantation house, now serves as the officer's club at Defense Supply Center Richmond. Belle Grove, 1797, Frederick County - a house in Middletown, home of Dolley Madison's sister and a National Trust ...
Kenmore, also known as Kenmore Plantation, is a plantation house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia.Built in the 1770s, it was the home of Fielding and Elizabeth Washington Lewis and is the only surviving structure from the 1,300-acre (530 ha) Kenmore plantation.
Since the houses in the area were constructed in consecutively popular modes (i.e. Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and American Foursquare) during an era of aggressive eclecticism, the district's architectural cohesiveness is established through use of common building materials, similarity of scale among structures, and mutually sympathetic ...
The courthouse was built about 1766, and is a one-story, T-shaped brick structure with a hipped roof. Other notable buildings include the Botetourt Hotel (now the Botetourt Administration Building, c. 1770); the Botetourt Lodge; W. C. Tucker's Department Store Building; S and S Hobbies; and the Kearn's Real Estate storage house. [3]
The Washington post office was situated in the town by 1804 and still remains in the town. The town became known as "Little Washington" as early as 1804, to distinguish it from the new capital of Washington, D.C. located only 70 miles to the northeast. [16] The courthouse of Washington, Virginia, constructed in 1833-1834
Mary Washington House in 1920. George Washington purchased this house for his mother from Micheal Robinson in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1772 for 275 pounds. Mary Ball Washington spent her last few years in the white frame house that sites on the corner of Charles and Lewis Street. [3] The house is located on 1200 Charles St Fredericksburg ...