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Rochambeau Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	1080 Manakin Rd., Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
Coordinates	37°38′03″N 77°43′12″W / 37.63417°N 77.72000°W / 37.63417; -77.72000
Area	35.7 acres (14.4 ha)
Built	c. 1855 (1855)
Architect	Bowles and Cres
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	99000969
VLR No.	037-0069
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 5, 1999
Designated VLR	September 14, 1998

Rochambeau Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. The main dwelling was built about 1855, and is an L-shaped full two-story frame structure set on a common bond brick foundation in the Greek Revival style. It has a low hip roof and three single-story colonnade porches.

Also on the property are the contributing library (c. 1750–1810), the woodshed with a three-hole privy in the rear, the old smokehouse (now farm office) with attached toolshed, lumber shed, the garage, the new smoke house (1917/18), a chicken house, milk cow barn (near ruin), run-in shed, two-stall horse barn (near ruin), and hay storage barn (1965) with tack room (1997). One contributing structure and two contributing sites include the original farm house well, the site of the old ice house and the vegetable garden, containing an archaeological site.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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. Joseph P. Weeks and Susan C. Weeks (July 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rochambeau Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photo

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