Glebe of Westover Parish is a historic home located near Ruthville,

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. It built about 1745, as a -story, five-bay brick building, with an early 19th-century rear ell. It reflects

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style design elements. It also has an early 20th-century, one-story, frame wing. It was built as a glebe house for Westover Parish. The house was sold into private hands after the 1807 act of the General Assembly requiring the sale of all Virginia glebes. an
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in 1975.

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Glebe House, State Route 615 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, VA
at the

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