Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)

Coordinates: 37°33′39″N 77°39′52″W / 37.56083°N 77.66444°W / 37.56083; -77.66444
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Keswick
Keswick, Main House, HABS Photo
Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)
Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia) is located in the United States
Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)
LocationNortheast of Powhatan off VA 711, near Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates37°33′39″N 77°39′52″W / 37.56083°N 77.66444°W / 37.56083; -77.66444
Area183 acres (74 ha)
Architectural styleH-shape
NRHP reference No.74002144[1]
VLR No.072-0045
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 19, 1974
Designated VLRNovember 19, 1974[2]

Keswick is a historic plantation house located near Powhatan, in Chesterfield County and Powhatan County, Virginia, USA. It was built in the early-19th century, and is an "H"-shaped, two-story, gable-roofed, frame-with-weatherboard building. The house is supported on brick foundations and has a brick exterior end chimney on each gable. Also on the property are a contributing well house, a smokehouse, the circular "slave quarters," a kitchen, a two-story brick house, a shed, and a laundry.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (November 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Keswick" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

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