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Grove Mount

Coordinates: 38°00′33″N 76°49′58″W / 38.00917°N 76.83278°W / 38.00917; -76.83278
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Grove Mount
Front of the house
Grove Mount is located in Virginia
Grove Mount
Grove Mount is located in the United States
Grove Mount
LocationJct. of VA 635 and VA 624, near Warsaw, Virginia
Coordinates38°00′33″N 76°49′58″W / 38.00917°N 76.83278°W / 38.00917; -76.83278
Area101.6 acres (41.1 ha)
Builtc. 1780 (1780)-1800
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.90001995[1]
VLR No.079-0005
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 3, 1991
Designated VLRDecember 12, 1989[2]

Grove Mount is a historic plantation house located near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built about 1780–1800 by Robert Mitchell with the profits of forced labor; by 1808, he had enslaved 76 people. It is a large, two-story, five-bay Late Georgian-style frame dwelling. It has a hipped roof and interior end chimneys. A kitchen wing was added in 1952 and an orangery added in 1989. Also on the property are the contributing late-18th century dairy, a log corn crib, and a late-19th or early-20th century frame outbuilding. There is also the archeological site of the former kitchen and possibly other outbuildings adjacent to the old kitchen.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ W. Brown Morton III (November 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grove Mount" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo