Built 1853 (1853) VLR # 037-0078 Opened 1853 Function House | NRHP Reference # 00000311 Designated VLR June 17, 1998 Area 78 ha Added to NRHP 14 April 2000 | |
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Location 661 River Rd. W #36, Manakin-Sabot, Virginia Architectural styles Colonial Revival architecture, Italianate architecture | ||
Ben Dover, also known as Ben Dover Farm, is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Manakin-Sabot in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 8 contributing sites, and 10 contributing structures. The main dwelling was built in 1853 as an Italianate style villa and later transformed in 1930 with a Colonial Revival facade in place to mask decades of deterioration and poor patchwork. Contributing buildings include tenant houses, a converted servants quarters, a garage, a number of barns and sheds, a bowling alley, a smokehouse, and a stable. Contributing structures include three water towers, two well houses, animal feeders, a chicken coop, a silo and a swimming pool. The eight sites include stone foundations or sites of buildings no longer standing including two ruinous barns, a bridge ruin, an old road trace, and remains of landscape terracing. They represent the evolution of the Virginia farm from the mid-19th century to the present.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.