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Oakland (Montpelier, Virginia)

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Built
  
1898 (1898)

VLR #
  
042-0024

Opened
  
1898

Added to NRHP
  
30 July 1974

NRHP Reference #
  
74002123

Designated VLR
  
February 19, 1974

Area
  
59 ha

Oakland (Montpelier, Virginia)

Location
  
N of Montpelier, near Montpelier, Virginia

Oakland is a historic home located near Montpelier, Hanover County, Virginia. It was built in 1898-1846, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, frame farmhouse, with a 2 1/2-story, three bay by five bay, rambling wing. It was built on the foundations of a house built in 1812 that was destroyed by fire. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and office. Oakland was the home and birthplace of the Virginia novelist, Thomas Nelson Page.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Oakland (Montpelier, Virginia) Wikipedia