Roxbury | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | December 21, 1976 [1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 096-0020 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 38.1578°N -77.0017°W |
Architecture: | Late Victorian, Picturesque mode |
Added: | March 15, 1979 |
Refnum: | 79003096 |
Roxbury is a historic home located near Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia.
It was built in 1861, and is a two-story, T-shaped frame dwelling with a two-bay front section and a three-bay rear wing. It features a one-story front porch supported by coupled, bracketed columns; steeply pitched gable roofs with deep projecting eaves and gables; two large gabled dormers; and sawn-work ornaments. Each wing has a central chimney with four square stacks joined at its corbelled caps. Roxbury was built for Dabney Carr Wirt (1814/1815-1888), the oldest brother of William Wirt, Jr., builder of Wirtland, and son of William Wirt, the noted jurist, statesman and author.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.