Sunnyside (Clarksville, Virginia) Explained

Sunnyside
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 19, 1996[1]
Designated Other1 Number:192-0002
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:36.6131°N -78.5711°W
Built:-1837
Architecture:I-house
Added:December 6, 1996
Refnum:96001452

Sunnyside is a historic plantation house located at Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in three sections: a one-room, two-story, three-bay frame dwelling with a side passage, built in 1833; a two-story, three bay I-house, begun in 1836 in front of the first dwelling and connected to it by a one-story hyphen; and a two-story, one room, one-bay addition built in 1837. Also on the property are the contributing late-19th century kitchen, an early-to-mid-19th century servant's quarter, an early-to-mid-19th century smokehouse, a mid-19th century shed, an early-20th century chicken house, the site of a 19th-century ice pit, a 19th and early 20th century tenant house / tobacco processing barn, three late 19th or early-20th century log tobacco barns, a 19th-century log tenant house, and the Carrington / Johnson family cemetery.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sunnyside . Margarita Jerabek Wuellner and Elizabeth Barthold O'Brien. December 1995 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo