Built 1861 (1861) VLR # 096-0020 Opened 1861 Architectural style Victorian architecture | NRHP Reference # 79003096 Designated VLR December 21, 1976 Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 15 March 1979 | |
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Location 1.7 mi. S of Oak Grove, near Oak Grove, Virginia | ||
Roxbury is a historic home located near Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built in 1861, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped frame dwelling with a two-bay front section and three-bay rear wing. It features a one-story front porch supported on coupled, bracketed columns; steeply pitched gable roofs with deep projecting eaves and gables; two large gabled dormers; and sawnwork ornaments. Each wing has a central chimney with four square stacks joined at their corbelled caps. Roxbury was built for Dabney Carr Wirt (1814/1815-1888), oldest brother of William Wirt, Jr., builder of Wirtland, and son of William Wirt, the noted jurist, statesman and author.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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