Blandfield Explained

Blandfield
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:May 13, 1969[1]
Designated Other1 Number:028-0005
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:E of jct. of Rtes. 624 and U.S. 17, Caret, Virginia
Coordinates:38.0004°N -76.9499°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Georgian, Mid-Georgian
Added:November 12, 1969
Refnum:69000238

Blandfield is a historic plantation house located at Caret, Essex County, Virginia. It was built about 1716–1720, and is a brick dwelling consisting of a two-story, central block with flanking two-story dependencies connected by one-story hyphens in the Georgian style. Blandfield was built for William Beverley (1696–1756), son of Virginia's first native-born historian, Robert Beverley, Jr. (c. 1673–1722). The house is one of the largest colonial plantation mansions in Virginia, and as of 1969, was still in the Beverley family.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blandfield . Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff. n.d.. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo