Lansdowne, also known as Retreat Farm and Backus House, is a historic home located near
Fredericksburg, in
Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The property is very near the
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The original section was built about 1755, and enlarged in the early-19th century and in 1950. It is a -story, three-bay, side gable-roofed, double-pile, wood-framed dwelling. It features tall exterior chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing
board-and-batten
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, side-gabled frame
bank barn
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(1920s), a cinderblock
spring house and cinderblock pumphouse with an early pump (c. 1950), the remnants of a mid-19th century historic formal landscape including terracing, and an historic road trace.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2013.[
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1755
Houses in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
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