Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)
Flat Rock | |
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| Location | SW of Kenbridge on VA 655, near Kenbridge, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°56′15.5″N 78°8′57″W / 36.937639°N 78.14917°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | c. 1797 |
| NRHP reference No. | 79003051[1] |
| VLR No. | 055-0003 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 21, 1979 |
| Designated VLR | December 19, 1978[2] |
Flat Rock is a historic plantation house located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in several sections during the first half of the 19th century. It is a two-story, three-bay frame structure flanked by one-story, one-bay wings. The oldest portion likely dates to about 1797. It has a side-gable roof and features two massive exterior end chimneys of brick and granite. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse and a mid-19th-century monument to Henry H. Chambers (1790–1826), son of an owner of Flat Rock and later a U.S. Senator from Alabama, who is buried here where he died en route to Washington.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (December 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Flat Rock" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
