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Hobson's Choice
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	E of Alberta on VA 606, near Alberta, Virginia
Coordinates	36°52′19″N 77°49′0″W / 36.87194°N 77.81667°W / 36.87194; -77.81667
Area	0 acres (0 ha)
Built	c. 1794 (1794)
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	80004174
VLR No.	012-0013
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 18, 1980
Designated VLR	November 20, 1979

Hobson's Choice is an historic home located near Alberta, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in the Palladian style about 1794 by Dr. Richard Feild for his bride Ann Meade, on land the groom bought from his father-in-law. The Edinburgh educated physician also had considerable knowledge of botany and astronomy, edited The Intelligencer and Petersburg Commercial Advertiser, and three times served as a Presidential elector. Although Feild died in 1829, the plantation stayed in the family until 1870.

The one-story brick structure has a central pavilion with flanking wings connected by hyphens in a late-Georgian style. A stone addition was built about 1860, a brick room added in 1947, and a frame enclosed porch about 1953.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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 2013-05-12.
3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (November 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hobson's Choice" (PDF). and Accompanying photo

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