Fairview is an historic home located near
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,982. The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the United States Department of Commerce combines the city of Fredericksburg wi ...
at 2020 Whitelake Drive.
It is the largest of the historic homes in
Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania County is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the July 2021 estimate, the population was 143,676. Its county seat is Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, Spotsylvania Courthouse.
History
At the time ...
. The house was built in 1837 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. (1776-1859). Alsop was an architect and builder who designed a number of buildings in Spotsylvania including the Old Berea Church and
Kenmore Woods (1829), which he built for his daughter.
After building homes for his daughters, Fairview was designed and constructed for Alsop himself. The
Federal-style
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
home is double-pile construction (meaning that there are two rooms between the front façade and the rear wall of the house). The site on which the home was built was originally . In the 1970s the land was subdivided for residences.
Fairview was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in December 1993.
References
Further reading
National Register of Historic Places registration form for Fairview
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1837
Houses in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
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