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Godwin–Knight House is a historic home located at
Chuckatuck, Virginia Chuckatuck is a neighborhood of the independent city of Suffolk, Virginia, United States. It is located at the junction of State Route 10/ State Route 32 and State Route 125, just south of SR 10/32's crossing of Chuckatuck Creek. Its elevation ...
. It was built in 1856, in the
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style, then elaborately remodeled about 1898 in the Queen Anne style. It is a -story, three-bay, double-pile side-hall-plan frame dwelling. hipped roof front porch. It features a wraparound porch and a corner tower with conical roof. Also on the property are the contributing summer kitchen,
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, woodshed / Delco house, two chicken house, a garage, and a barn / stable. It was the boyhood home of Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr. an
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in 1985. It is located in the Chuckatuck Historic District.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1856 Houses in Suffolk, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk, Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia {{SuffolkVA-NRHP-stub