Upper Weyanoke Explained

Upper Weyanoke
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:September 16, 1980[1]
Designated Other1 Number:018-0014
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:S. of Charles City on VA 619, Charles City, Virginia
Coordinates:37.2983°N -77.0736°W
Built:, 1858-1859
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:December 9, 1980
Refnum:80004441

Upper Weyanoke is a historic plantation house close to Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia. The property contains a one-and-a-half-story cottage built in about 1815, and a larger two-story Greek Revival style residence erected in 1858–59. The cottage was probably built by John Minge as a two-room dependency to a now-vanished main dwelling. The main house was built for Robert Douthat, and is a two-story brick dwelling with a side-hall plan typically utilized in urban homes, rather than rural plantation houses.[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register . Virginia Department of Historic Resources . 5 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm . 21 September 2013 . dead . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Upper Weyanoke . PDF . Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff . September 1980. and Accompanying photo