Hidden Valley (Bacova, Virginia)
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Hidden Valley, also known as Warwickton, is a historic home located near Bacova,
Bath County, Virginia Bath County is a United States county on the central western border of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the West Virginia state line. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,209, the second-least populous county in Virginia. Bath's county ...
. It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a hipped roof in a
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 ...
/ Late Victorian style. It has a rear ell. The front facade features a pedimented tetra-style portico with
Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...
columns, placed over the central three bays of the five-bay facade. The entrance is styled upon a design on Plate 28 in Asher Benjamin's stylebook, ''The Practical Carpenter'' (1835). an
''Accompanying photo''
/ref> It was listed on 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 1970.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1858 Houses in Bath County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Bath County, Virginia 1858 establishments in Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{BathCountyVA-NRHP-stub