Woodlawn (plantation)

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Woodlawn Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Virginia Landmarks Register
Woodlawn, August 2003
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Location	West of junction of U.S. 1 and Rte. 235, Alexandria, Virginia
Coordinates	38°43′0″N 77°8′10″W / 38.71667°N 77.13611°W / 38.71667; -77.13611Coordinates: 38°43′0″N 77°8′10″W / 38.71667°N 77.13611°W / 38.71667; -77.13611
Built	1800-1805
Architect	Dr. William Thornton
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP Reference #	70000792, 11000836 (Boundary Increase)^[1]
VLR #	029-0056
Added to NRHP	February 26, 1970, November 18, 2011 (Boundary Increase)
Designated NHL	August 6, 1998^[2]
Designated VLR	December 2, 1969, September 22, 2011^[3]

Woodlawn Plantation is a historic house located in Fairfax County, Virginia, and was originally a part of Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic plantation estate.

Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, was raised on the Mount Vernon estate. In 1799, George Washington gave Custis and his nephew Major Lawrence Lewis 2,000 acres (810 ha) of land as a wedding present. The President asked the distinguished architect Dr. William Thornton, architect of the U.S. Capitol, to design them a house.^[4]

Construction of the Woodlawn house began in 1800 and was finished in 1805. The main Woodlawn house is located on a hill, overlooking Mount Vernon, and the Mount Vernon home is visible from the Woodlawn house. Today, 126 acres containing the original house and surrounding gardens are all that remain of the original plantation. The remainder of the property was sold for development over the years. The Woodlawn Plantation is owned and operated as a museum by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, part of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1998.^[2]^[5]

On the premises of the Woodlawn Plantation is also the site of the Pope-Leighey House, a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house.

The address is 9000 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, Virginia.

References

↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "Woodlawn". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
↑ "Woodlawn, a National Trust Historic Site". National Trust for Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on February 22, 2010.
↑ Craig Tuminaro and Carolyn Pitts (March 4, 1998). "National Historic Landmark Nomination Form: Woodlawn" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2015-11-18. and Accompanying nine photos, exterior and interior, from 1997 (32 KB)

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External links

Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House - official site
Woodlawn, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA: 22 photos, 2 color transparencies, 13 measured drawings, 5 data pages, and 3 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Woodlawn, Dairy, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
Woodlawn, Smokehouse, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA: 1 photo at Historic American Buildings Survey

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