Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 74002247 Designated VLR November 20, 1973 Added to NRHP 2 May 1974 | Built 1837 (1837) VLR # 133-0003 Opened 1837 | |
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Location 510 Main St., Suffolk, Virginia Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar Glebe Church, Mount Sinai Baptist C, Kings Highway Bridge, St John's Church, Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel | ||
Riddick House, also known as Riddicks Folly, is a historic home located at Suffolk, Virginia. It was built in 1837, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay by four bay, Greek Revival style brick townhouse. The front facade features a one-story diastyle Doric order portico with a triangular pediment supported by two fluted columns and two plain pilasters. It also has a one-story tetrastyle portico added across the south end in 1905. During the American Civil War, General John J. Peck and his staff maintained Union Army staff headquarters in the house.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is located in the Suffolk Historic District.
Riddick's Folly is open as a historic house museum.
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