Point of Rocks | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | December 6, 2004[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 020-0123 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 37.3217°N -77.3381°W |
Architecture: | Greek Revival |
Added: | March 10, 2005 |
Refnum: | 05000134 |
Point of Rocks is a historic plantation house located near Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a one-story, three-bay, double pile dwelling with weatherboard siding and a low-pitched hipped standing seam metal roof in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a contributing garage. The property was the location of a Union military observation point and headquarters for General Benjamin F. Butler and hospital established in 1864 during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.