Mansfield is a historic plantation house located near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was built in stages starting about 1750, and is a 1+12-story long and narrow frame dwelling with a hipped roof.[3] It has a hipped roof rear ell connected to the main house by a hyphen. It features an octastyle Colonial Revival porch stretching the full length of the front facade.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[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. ^ Times-Dispatch, story By HOLLY PRESTIDGE and photos by alexa welch edlund Richmond. "A Richmond couple bought a 1740s Dinwiddie plantation at auction - and with it, a large piece of history". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  4. ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (December 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mansfield" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


No tags for this post.