Olive Hill 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 ...

located near Matoaca in

Chesterfield County, Virginia Chesterfield County is located just south of Richmond, Virginia, Richmond in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. The county's borders are primarily defined by the James River to the north and the Appomattox River to the sout ...

. It was built in 1740, and is a two-story, five-bay-wide, white frame house in the

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

style. The original structure measures . It is sheathed in molded weatherboard and topped by a pedimented roof. The interior features a Chinese lattice stair with a molded hand rail. 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 v ...

in 1975.

References

Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Georgian architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1802 Houses in Chesterfield County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Chesterfield County, Virginia {{ChesterfieldCountyVA-NRHP-stub