Haw Branch Explained

Haw Branch
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:October 17, 1972[1]
Designated Other1 Number:004-0002
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:Off SR 667, north of Amelia Court House, Virginia
Coordinates:37.4107°N -78.0203°W
Built:c., c. 1815
Architecture:Federal
Added:April 2, 1973
Refnum:73001992

Haw Branch is a historic plantation house located near Amelia Court House, Amelia County, Virginia. The earliest section of the house dates to 1748. It was enlarged and expanded after the Revolutionary War. The house consists of a five-bay central block with hipped roof and exterior end chimneys, flanked by symmetrical three-bay wings with hipped roofs. It was restored in 1965. The house features finely detailed Federal-style interiors added about 1815. Also on the property are a contributing little school house, a rectangular building with a massive central chimney housing the kitchen and weaving room, and a smokehouse on the eastern end of the row of dependencies.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Haw Branch. Virginia Historic Landmark8 Commission Staff. September 1972. and Accompanying photo