Cedar Grove | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | October 16, 1979[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 063-0036 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | Southwest of New Kent off VA 608, near Providence Forge, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 37.4853°N -77.1158°W |
Built: | c., c. 1916 |
Added: | December 28, 1979 |
Refnum: | 79003058 |
Cedar Grove is a historic plantation house located near Providence Forge, New Kent County, Virginia. The main section was built about 1810, and is a -story, single pile, brick structure. The frame section was added about 1916. It has a traditional one-room side-hall plan. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and several sheds added about 1916. It was the farm residence of the Christians, a leading county family of colonial and early-Republican times. The 19th-century cemetery contains the graves of the Christian family, including Letitia Christian Tyler, the first wife of President John Tyler.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.