Castlewood, also known as the Poindexter House and The Old Parsonage, is a historic plantation house located near Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built between about 1810 and 1820, and is a long, five-part frame house that was built in at least two or three stages. It consists of a two-story, one-bay-wide central section, flanked by 1+1⁄2-story, two-bay wings, connected to the main block by one-story, one-bay hyphens. Also on the property is a contributing frame, pyramidal roofed structure with a coved cornice that may have housed a dairy.[3]
Castlewood | |
 Castlewood, September 2012 | |
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| Location | VA 10, Chesterfield, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°22′31″N 77°30′11″W / 37.37528°N 77.50306°W |
| Area | 5.8 acres (2.3 ha) |
| Built | c. 1810-1820 |
| NRHP reference No. | 76002099[1] |
| VLR No. | 020-0014 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 21, 1976 |
| Designated VLR | June 15, 1976[2] |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[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. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (June 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Castlewood" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo