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Wharton Place

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Built
  
1798 (1798)

NRHP Reference #
  
72001378

Designated VLR
  
April 18, 1972

Area
  
65 ha

Added to NRHP
  
3 November 1972

Built by
  
Wellford, Robert

VLR #
  
001-0050

Opened
  
1798

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Wharton Place httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
0.7 mi. NE of jct. of VA 762 and 679, Mappsville, Virginia

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Wharton Place is a historic home located at Mappsville, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built in 1798, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Federal style. It has a one-story brick kitchen wing. It has a deck-on-hip roof and projecting interior chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing frame smokehouse. The house was built by John Wharton (1762-1811), a prosperous maritime merchant and native of Accomack County.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Wharton Place Wikipedia