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Rockwood (Dublin, Virginia)

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Built
  
1874 (1874)-1875

VLR #
  
077-0045

Area
  
28 ha

Added to NRHP
  
26 May 2005

NRHP Reference #
  
05000473

Designated VLR
  
March 16, 2005

Function
  
House

Rockwood (Dublin, Virginia)

Location
  
5189 Rockwood Dr., Dublin, Virginia

Architectural styles
  
Greek Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture

Rockwood is a historic home and cattle / dairy farm located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1874-1875, and is a large two-story, Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It has a metal-sheathed hipped roof with a deck, interior brick chimneys, two-story semi-octagonal bay windows, ornamental metal lintels, and a Classical Revival wraparound porch added in the 1910s. The center section of the porch rises a full two stories on monumental Ionic order columns. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse (1870s), garage, ice house site, two chicken houses, pump house, gate pillars, lamb barn, spring house, dairy barn, calf barn, mill house, two pump houses, bull barn, and a corn crib and wagon shed. Many of the contributing outbuildings date to the 1950s.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Rockwood (Dublin, Virginia) Wikipedia