Sunnyside | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | October 21, 1981[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 087-0098 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | VA 673, near Newsoms, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 36.6444°N -77.1428°W |
Built: | c., 1847, 1870 |
Architecture: | Greek Revival, Italianate |
Added: | July 8, 1982 |
Refnum: | 82004596 |
Sunnyside is a historic plantation house and complex located near Newsoms, Southampton County, Virginia. The house was built in three stages dating to about 1815, 1847, and 1870. It is a two-story, T-shaped frame dwelling. The main section was built in 1870, and has Greek Revival and Italianate design elements. The front facade features an imposing, two-story, pedimented portico sheltering the main entrance. Also on the property are 13 contributing outbuildings: a schoolhouse, school master's house, dairy, milk house, tenant's house, privy, pump house, sheds, peanut barn, a tall smokehouse, kitchen-laundry, and a garage.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.