Guilford is a historic plantation house and a farm located near White Post,

Clarke County, Virginia Clarke County is a County (United States), county in the Virginia, Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 14,783. Its county seat is Berryville, Virginia, Berryville. Clarke County is inc ...

. It was built between 1812 and 1820, and is a two-story, nearly square, brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

style. The front facade features a full-height, three-bay, pedimented portico with monumental Greek

Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic classical order, orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric order, Doric and the Corinthian order, Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan order, Tuscan (a plainer Doric) ...

columns. Also on the property is a contributing brick slave's quarters. an
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in 1993.

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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Clarke County, Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1820 Houses in Clarke County, Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{ClarkeCountyVA-NRHP-stub