Blandfield

Historic house in Virginia, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Blandfield
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Blandfield, HABS Photo, 1983
38°00′01″N 76°56′59″W / 38.00039°N 76.94986°W / 38.00039; -76.94986
Area	3,500 acres (1,400 ha)
Built	c. 1750 (1750)
Architectural style	Georgian, Mid-Georgian
NRHP reference No.	69000238^[1]
VLR No.	028-0005
Added to NRHP	November 12, 1969
Designated VLR	May 13, 1969^[2]

Blandfield is a historic plantation house located at Caret, Essex County, Virginia. It was built about 1716–1720, and is a brick dwelling consisting of a two-story, central block with flanking two-story dependencies connected by one-story hyphens in the Georgian style. Blandfield was built for William Beverley (1696–1756), son of Virginia's first native-born historian, Robert Beverley, Jr. (c. 1673–1722). The house is one of the largest colonial plantation mansions in Virginia, and as of 1969, was still in the Beverley family.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blandfield" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

External links

Media related to Blandfield at Wikimedia Commons
Blandfield, U.S. Route 17 & State Route 624, Caret, Essex County, VA: 109 photos, 21 measured drawings, and 6 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Blandfield, Smokehouse, Caret, Essex County, VA: 3 photos and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey