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Rokeby (King George, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
04001544

Designated VLR
  
December 1, 2004

Area
  
20 ha

Added to NRHP
  
20 January 2005

VLR #
  
048-0019

Floors
  
2

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Rokeby (King George, Virginia)

Location
  
5447 Kings Hwy, King George, Virginia

Built
  
c. 1828 (1828), 1912, 1917

Similar
  
Ellen Glasgow House, Spence's Point, Willa Cather Birthplace, Jerdone Castle, Willow Shade

Rokeby is a historic home located at King George, King George County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1828, and is a two-story, three bay Federal style brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof, tripartite windows, lintel-type window heads, and elliptical, leaded-glass fanlight with flanking sidelights. The original block was enlarged about 1912 by a pair of flanking two-story, frame pavilions, and in 1917, the west wing was substantially enlarged. Also on the property are the contributing antebellum smokehouse and a complex of buildings built in 1917-1920: (1) schoolhouse; (2) summer / tenant house; (3) playhouse; (4) garage; (5) Sears, Roebuck catalog-ordered horse barn; (6) sheep barn; and (7) cattle run-in shed.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Rokeby (King George, Virginia) Wikipedia