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Quarters A, B, and C, Norfolk Naval Shipyard

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Architectural style
  
Greek Revival

VLR #
  
124-0016

Area
  
1 ha

Added to NRHP
  
19 December 1974

NRHP Reference #
  
74002242

Designated VLR
  
November 19, 1974

Year built
  
1837

Quarters A, B, and C, Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Location
  
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia

Quarters A, B, and C, Norfolk Naval Shipyard are three historic officer's quarters located at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. They were built about 1837, and are three Greek Revival style brick dwellings. Quarters A is the most formal and sits on a high basement and covered by a hipped roof with interior end chimneys. It features a central entry with Doric order pilasters, plain full entablature and blocking course. Its design is taken directly from Plate 28 of Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter (1830). Quarters B and C also sit on a high basement and covered by a hipped roof with interior end chimneys.

Quarters A, the residence of the shipyard's commanders, was extensively damaged by fire on 12 August 2014.

The residences were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Quarters A, B, and C, Norfolk Naval Shipyard Wikipedia