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Foster's Castle
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	Northeast of Tunstall off VA 608, near Tunstall, Virginia
Coordinates	37°35′20″N 77°04′42″W / 37.58889°N 77.07833°W / 37.58889; -77.07833
Area	340 acres (140 ha)
Built	c. 1685 (1685), 1873
Architectural style	Colonial, Tudor-Stuart
NRHP reference No.	73002044
VLR No.	063-0003
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1973
Designated VLR	January 16, 1973

Foster's Castle is a historic plantation house located near Tunstall, New Kent County, Virginia. It was built about 1685, as a 1+1⁄2-story, T-shaped brick building, with a two-story central projection at the front. The house is similar to neighboring Criss Cross. It was raised to a full two stories with a low pitched roof in 1873. Its builder, Colonel Joseph Foster, was a vestryman and supervisor of construction at St. Peter's Church.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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 (October 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Foster's Castle" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

External links

• Castle, State Route 608 vicinity, Tunstall, New Kent County, VA 6 photos, 13 measured drawings, and 5 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

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