Built 1758 (1758) NRHP Reference # 08000390 Opened 1758 Added to NRHP 8 May 2008 | Built by Unknown; Gordon, John VLR # 316-0001 Area 2 ha | |
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Location 131 Virginia St., Urbanna, Virginia Architectural style Georgian, Colonial Revival, Southern Colonial | ||
Sandwich, also known as the Old Customs House, is a historic home located at Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia. It was built about 1758, and is a three bay rectangular plan brick structure is built into the side of a steep hill with 1 1/2-stories on the west up-hill facade, and 2 1/2-stories on the east side. The house was renovated in the 1930s. Also on the property are a contributing brick wall, and a formal boxwood garden site, which includes four contributing garden buildings. Andrew Jackson Montague purchased the property in 1934. It is considered by many historians to be one of the oldest remaining buildings in the Urbanna Historic District.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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