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Park Gate (Nokesville, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1750 (1750)

NRHP Reference #
  
87000580

Designated VLR
  
September 20, 1988

Area
  
1 ha

Architectural style
  
Tidewater Style

VLR #
  
076-0018

Opened
  
1750

Added to NRHP
  
3 April 1987

Park Gate (Nokesville, Virginia)

Location
  
11508 Park Gate Dr., near Nokesville, Virginia

Park Gate is a historic home located near Nokesville, Prince William County, Virginia. It was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story, three-bay, Tidewater Style frame dwelling. It has a steep gable roof and exterior end chimneys and measures 36 feet by 30 feet. The front facade features a 12 feet deep full width front porch. Colonel Thomas Lee, eldest son of Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, resided at Park Gate from about 1790 to 1805.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Park Gate (Nokesville, Virginia) Wikipedia