Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)

Keswick

Keswick, Main House, HABS Photo
Location Northeast of Powhatan off VA 711, near Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates 37°33′39″N 77°39′52″W / 37.56083°N 77.66444°W / 37.56083; -77.66444Coordinates: 37°33′39″N 77°39′52″W / 37.56083°N 77.66444°W / 37.56083; -77.66444
Area 183 acres (74 ha)
Architectural style H-shape
NRHP Reference # 74002144[1]
VLR # 072-0045
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 19, 1974
Designated VLR November 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. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  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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