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[3] Name on the Register [4] Image Date listed [5] Location Description 1: Braehead: Braehead: May 11, 2000 (123 Lee Dr. Also known as Howison House; played a significant role in U.S. Civil War battle plans during the Fredericksburg campaigns of 1862–1864 [6]
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.
Jefferson designed the house in the then fashionable Neo-Palladian style. [3] Only two one-story side porches appear to have been later additions. Though large in scale, the house contained only eight principal rooms, as the hall, drawing room, and dining room were two-story chambers.
It includes substantial, high-style residences that line both the east and the west sides of Washington Avenue reflect the various domestic styles that were popular at the turn of the 20th century. Notable dwellings include the Samuel W. Somerville House (1896-1897), Shepherd House (1910-1911), and Mary Washington Monument Caretaker's Lodge (1896).
The house was purchased in 1966 by the president of the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation and, for a time, the house was rented for income. In 1975 the Foundation moved its museum and offices into The Chimneys. [4] After William Vakos purchased and renovated it in 1982, the building was sold to Robert Mitchell III in 1985.
Though the Thornton family has lived at Fall Hill since the early 18th century, the present house was built in 1790 for Francis Thornton V (1760–1836). [3] The land on which Fall Hill is located is part of an 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) land patent obtained by Francis Thornton I (1657–1727) around 1720.
Brompton, originally known as Marye House, is an historic house located on heights overlooking the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The house was built in 1838 by John Lawrence Marye. [3] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 1979. [1] The house sits atop an area of Fredericksburg known as 'Marye's Heights'. [4]
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 ...