Robert Tynes House | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | September 6, 2006[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 046-0002 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 13060 Courthouse Hwy., near Smithfield, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 36.965°N -76.6631°W |
Architecture: | Georgian |
Added: | March 21, 2007 |
Refnum: | 07000194 |
Robert Tynes House, also known as Tynes Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The house was built in 1750 and is a two-story, three-bay, Georgian style brick dwelling with a gambrel roof. The interior features a center-passage single-pile plan. Also on the property are the contributing garden and well, smokehouse / frame shed, and kitchen foundation. In 1802, its owner Timothy Tynes granted manumission of his 81 slaves and the division of his 4,000 acre estate primarily to his slaves.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.