Keswick (Powhatan, Virginia)

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Keswick
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Keswick, Main House, HABS Photo
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Location	Northeast of Powhatan off VA 711, near Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates	37°33′39″N 77°39′52″W / 37.56083°N 77.66444°W / 37.56083; -77.66444Coordinates: 37°33′39″N 77°39′52″W / 37.56083°N 77.66444°W / 37.56083; -77.66444
Area	183 acres (74 ha)
Architectural style	H-shape
NRHP Reference #	74002144^[1]
VLR #	072-0045
Added to NRHP	December 19, 1974
Designated VLR	November 19, 1974^[2]

Keswick is a historic plantation house located near Powhatan, in Chesterfield County and Powhatan County, Virginia, USA. It was built in the early-19th century, and is an "H"-shaped, two-story, gable-roofed, frame-with-weatherboard building. The house is supported on brick foundations and has a brick exterior end chimney on each gable. Also on the property are a contributing well house, a smokehouse, the circular "slave quarters," a kitchen, a two-story brick house, a shed, and a laundry.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
↑ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (November 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Keswick" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

External links

Keswick, State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 2 photos at Historic American Buildings Survey
Keswick, Brick House (first), State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 1 photo, 7 measured drawings, and 2 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Keswick, Quarters, State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 7 photos, 4 measured drawings, and 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Keswick, Guest House, State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 1 photo at Historic American Buildings Survey
Keswick, Kitchen, State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 2 photos at Historic American Buildings Survey
Keswick, Smokehouse, State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 1 photo at Historic American Buildings Survey
Keswick, Main House (second), State Route 711 vicinity, Huguenot, Powhatan County, VA: 5 photos at Historic American Buildings Survey

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