Guilford is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

and a farm located near White Post,

Clarke County, Virginia Clarke County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,783. Its county seat is Berryville. Clarke County is included in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistic ...

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

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

style. The front facade features a full-height, three-bay, pedimented portico with monumental Greek Ionic order columns. Also on the property is a contributing brick slave's quarters. an
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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 ...

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 {{ClarkeCountyVA-NRHP-stub