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Bryn Arvon and Gwyn Arvon are two historic homes located at Arvonia,
Buckingham County, Virginia Buckingham County is a rural United States county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and containing the geographic center of the state. Buckingham County is part of the Piedmont region of Virginia, and the county seat is Buckingham. B ...
. They were built about 1891–1892, and are two
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-covered Queen Anne style dwellings. Also on the property are a contributing garage, water tower, barn, two entrance piers, the site of a house foundation, a pump house, and a storage building. an
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The houses were listed on the
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in 1991.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1892 Houses in Buckingham County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Buckingham County, Virginia {{BuckinghamCountyVA-NRHP-stub