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Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1797 (1797)

VLR #
  
055-0003

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
79003051

Designated VLR
  
December 19, 1978

Added to NRHP
  
21 May 1979

Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)

Location
  
SW of Kenbridge on VA 655, near Kenbridge, Virginia

Flat Rock is a historic plantation house located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in several sections during the first half of the 19th century. It is a two-story, three-bay frame structure flanked by one-story, one-bay wings. The oldest portion likely dates to about 1797. It has a side-gable roof and features two massive exterior end chimneys of brick and granite. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse and a mid-19th-century monument to Henry H. Chambers (1790–1826), son of an owner of Flat Rock and later a U.S. Senator from Alabama, who is buried here where he died en route to Washington.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia) Wikipedia