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Poplar Hill (Smithfield, Virginia)

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Built
  
1793 (1793)

NRHP Reference #
  
95000975

Designated VLR
  
June 27, 1995

Floors
  
1

Function
  
House

Architectural style
  
Early Republic

VLR #
  
046-0096

Opened
  
1793

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
18 August 1995

Poplar Hill (Smithfield, Virginia)

Location
  
7968 Purvis Ln. (VA 673), 0.9 mi. NW of jct. with VA 677, near Smithfield, Virginia

Poplar Hill is a historic home located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The house was built about 1793, and is a 1 1/2-story, frame, hall and parlor-plan dwelling. It has an early-19th century lean-to rear addition, a post American Civil War kitchen addition, a 1920s one-room addition, and a screened-in front porch on the main facade. Also on the property are the contributing wash house, shed, garage, and stable, and the sites of a smokehouse, kitchen, carriage house, and ice house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

References

Poplar Hill (Smithfield, Virginia) Wikipedia