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Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Alexander Hamilton - Print, Library of Congress collection

Alexander Hamilton - Print, Library of Congress collection

43996 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Campbell, William J.,... More

Effingham, State Route 646 vicinity, Aden, Prince William County, Virginia

Effingham, State Route 646 vicinity, Aden, Prince William County, Virg...

Significance: "Effingham" was the home of Colonel William Alexander (1744-1848) and a descendant of Philip Alexander, second son of the emigrant. This is the same family for whom the city of Alexandria was nam... More

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Indepe...

Significance: The Lloyd House, of late Georgian style and formal in composition is recognized as one of Alexandria's great mansions. This building is noteworthy as the full development of the town house with c... More

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Indepe...

Significance: The Lloyd House, of late Georgian style and formal in composition is recognized as one of Alexandria's great mansions. This building is noteworthy as the full development of the town house with c... More

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Indepe...

Significance: The Lloyd House, of late Georgian style and formal in composition is recognized as one of Alexandria's great mansions. This building is noteworthy as the full development of the town house with c... More

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA

Wise-Hooe-Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, Alexandria, Indepe...

Significance: The Lloyd House, of late Georgian style and formal in composition is recognized as one of Alexandria's great mansions. This building is noteworthy as the full development of the town house with c... More

Sully, 3601 Sully Road, Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia

Sully, 3601 Sully Road, Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia

The address was updated from 3601 Sully Road, Chantilly vicinity, to 3650 Historic Sully Way, Chantilly. (November 2016) Significance: Aside from preeminent historical associations, "Sully" is a notable plantat... More

Menokin, Menokin Bay, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia

Menokin, Menokin Bay, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-110 Survey number: HABS VA-156 Building/structure dates: ca. 1769 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000276

Menokin, Menokin Bay, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia

Menokin, Menokin Bay, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-110 Survey number: HABS VA-156 Building/structure dates: ca. 1769 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000276

Friendship Fire Company, 107 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Friendship Fire Company, 107 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, Independ...

Significance: The Friendship Firehouse was built in 1855 as the home of the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Company as traditionally founded by George Washington in 1774. George Washington, a charter member of... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Kenmore, 1201 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Kenmore, 1201 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Virgi...

Significance: Kenmore was built as a plantation house by Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington Lewis, soon after they acquired the property in 1752. The original 863-acre plantation extended to the wes... More

Kenmore, 1201 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Kenmore, 1201 Washington Avenue, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Virgi...

Significance: Kenmore was built as a plantation house by Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington Lewis, soon after they acquired the property in 1752. The original 863-acre plantation extended to the wes... More

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, Northeast, Washington, ...

Since March 2016, the house is the site of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. Significance: The Sewall-Belmont House, built ca. 1800 for Robert Sewall in the newly formed city of Washington, h... More

Tuckahoe Plantation, River Road, Richmond vicinity, Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia

Tuckahoe Plantation, River Road, Richmond vicinity, Manakin, Goochland...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Hopewell Plantation, Clemson University Campus, near intersection of Old Cherry Road and Old Stone Church Road, Clemson, Pickens County, SC

Hopewell Plantation, Clemson University Campus, near intersection of O...

2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize Significance: Built about 1785 initially a log structure, Hopewell is representative of a rural house type, which was common in the late 18th and early 19th century in the backcou... More

Bacon's Castle, State Route 617, Surry, Surry County, Virginia

Bacon's Castle, State Route 617, Surry, Surry County, Virginia

Significance: The fine old brick mansion in the lower part of the County, known as "Bacon's Castle", was built by Arthur Allen, ancestor of the Claremont Allens, in 1665. It was referred to as "Allen's Brick H... More

Washington & Lee University, Lee Chapel, Lexington, Lexington, Virginia

Washington & Lee University, Lee Chapel, Lexington, Lexington, Virgini...

Significance: The Lee Chapel was declared a Registered National Historic Landmark in 1961 by the U.S. Department of the Interior which stated that "This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and ill... More

Robert Tait Plantation, County Road 33, Camden, Wilcox County, AL

Robert Tait Plantation, County Road 33, Camden, Wilcox County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-139 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 95000147

Christ Church (Episcopal), Columbus & Cameron Streets, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Christ Church (Episcopal), Columbus & Cameron Streets, Alexandria, Ind...

Significance: Belonging to the Alexandria-Fairfax Church Group, based on plan of James Wren, local architect and builder. Original dimensions proposed 40' x 60' but the building was enlarged to approximately 5... More

Sherwood Forest, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Sherwood Forest, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, V...

Significance: Home of President John Tyler for the last 20 years of his life. Architecturally, the house is particularly interesting as one of the longest frame dwellings in America. John Tyler bought this 1,... More

Sherwood Forest, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, VA

Sherwood Forest, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, V...

Significance: Home of President John Tyler for the last 20 years of his life. Architecturally, the house is particularly interesting as one of the longest frame dwellings in America. John Tyler bought this 1,... More

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & Spring Streets, Aurora, Kane County, IL

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & Spring Streets, Aurora, Kane County, IL

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & ...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Westover was patented in 1637 and was purchased by William Byrd I in 1688. The present 18th century complex was erected for William Byrd II, the noted colonial leader, planter, diarist, and founde... More

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Westover was patented in 1637 and was purchased by William Byrd I in 1688. The present 18th century complex was erected for William Byrd II, the noted colonial leader, planter, diarist, and founde... More

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Westover was patented in 1637 and was purchased by William Byrd I in 1688. The present 18th century complex was erected for William Byrd II, the noted colonial leader, planter, diarist, and founde... More

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

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