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Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)

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Historic house in Virginia, United States United States historic place
Flat Rock
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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LocationSW of Kenbridge on VA 655, near Kenbridge, Virginia
Coordinates36°56′15.5″N 78°8′57″W / 36.937639°N 78.14917°W / 36.937639; -78.14917
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc. 1797 (1797)
NRHP reference No.79003051
VLR No.055-0003
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 21, 1979
Designated VLRDecember 19, 1978

Flat Rock is a historic plantation house located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in several sections during the first half of the 19th century. It is a two-story, three-bay frame structure flanked by one-story, one-bay wings. The oldest portion likely dates to about 1797. It has a side-gable roof and features two massive exterior end chimneys of brick and granite. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse and a mid-19th-century monument to Henry H. Chambers (1790–1826), son of an owner of Flat Rock and later a U.S. Senator from Alabama, who is buried here where he died en route to Washington.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (December 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Flat Rock" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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