Prospect is a historic
plantation house
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located near
Topping
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* Hill-topping, a mate-acquisition strategy amongst insects
* Topping, slang term for capital punishment, especially hanging or beheading
* Topping (surname), the name of several people
* Topping (agriculture), a practice ...
,
Middlesex County, Virginia
Middlesex County is a county located on the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,625. Its county seat is Saluda.
History
This area was long settled by indigenous peoples; those encount ...
. The house was constructed between 1820 and 1850, and is a -story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a gable roof in the
Federal
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style. Two 38-foot chimneys abut each end of the house and the front and rear facades have identical gable-roofed
porticos. Also on the property are the contributing a 19th-century
carriage house
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In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open ...
, an early 1900s farm shed, and the original
brick-lined well
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.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2004.[
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References
Plantation houses in Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1849
Houses in Middlesex County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Virginia
1849 establishments in Virginia
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