Mitchell's Brick House Tavern, also known as Oakland, Hite House, Goodwin Tavern, Goodwin House and Coco House, is a historic home located at Arrington,

Nelson County, Virginia Nelson County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,775. Its county seat is Lovingston. Nelson County is part of the Charlottesville, VA Metropolitan Statistic ...

. It is a two-story, painted brick

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 ...

-style house with a raised or

English basement An English basement is an apartment (flat in UK English) on the lowest floor of a building, generally a townhouse or brownstone, which is partially below and partially above ground level and which has its own entrance separate from those of the ...

, built about 1838. The estate consists of the main house with two additions, several dependencies (including an old log

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

), a garage, and the small Goodwin Family cemetery. an
''Accompanying four photos''
/ref> It is home to the Nelson County Museum of History, who named the project "Oakland." 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 2006.

Gallery

Image:Oakland Dependencies 1 Dec 08.JPG, Oakland Dependencies, Nelson Co., Va., December 2008 Image:Oakland Dependencies 2 Dec 08.JPG, Oakland Dependencies, Nelson Co., Va., December 2008 Image:Oakland Cemetery Dec 08.JPG, Goodwin Family Cemetery, Nelson Co., Va., December 2008

References

External links

Oakland: Nelson County's Museum of History
- official site
National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses in Nelson County, Virginia Museums in Nelson County, Virginia History museums in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1838 National Register of Historic Places in Nelson County, Virginia {{Virginia-museum-stub