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Stirling (Massaponax, Virginia)

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Built
  
1858 (1858)-1860, 1912

NRHP Reference #
  
89000366

Opened
  
1858

Added to NRHP
  
5 May 1989

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Federal

VLR #
  
088-0066

Area
  
6 ha

Stirling (Massaponax, Virginia)

Location
  
County Route 607 at I-95, near Massaponax, Virginia

Built by
  
Holladay, John; Holladay, Tavener W.

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Stirling, also known as Stirling Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Massaponax, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. It was built between 1858 and 1860, and is a 2 12-story, five-bay, brick Greek Revival and Federal dwelling. It measures 56 feet by 36 feet, and has a hipped roof and four interior end chimneys. It sits on a raised basement and features entrance porches added about 1912. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen dependency, smokehouse, family cemetery, and the undisturbed archaeological sites of a weaving house and three slave cabins.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

References

Stirling (Massaponax, Virginia) Wikipedia