Cherry Walk, Kitchen, Dunbrooke Road (Route 620), 2.25 miles north of Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 360), Millers Tavern, Essex County, Virginia

Significance: Erected during the third quarter of the nineteenth century by the Broaddus family, the next generation to occupy Cherry Walk, the kitchen is the latest domestic outbuilding within the farmstead complex. It represents a blending of old and new building traditions, mixing framing types from earlier Chesapeake structures with later nineteenth-century systems for eaves and joist treatment and the attachment of siding. The Kitchen was the primary cook facility for the Cherry Walk during the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a well-crafted farmstead erected during early nineteenth century. With its prim farmer's house and large collection of carefully constructed support buildings, Cherry Walk remains as a remarkably intact example of the highly respectable sort of farmstead that successful landowners below the level of grandees strove to create beginning in the decades after the Revolutionary War and well into the nineteenth century.
Survey number: HABS VA-1517-C
Building/structure dates: after. 1875- before. 1900 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 83003280