Rockwood is a historic home and cattle / dairy farm located near

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. It was built in 1874–1875, and is a large two-story,

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style brick dwelling. It has a metal-sheathed hipped roof with a deck, interior brick chimneys, two-story semi-octagonal bay windows, ornamental metal

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s, and a

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wraparound porch added in the 1910s. The center section of the porch rises a full two stories on monumental

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columns. Also on the property are the contributing

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(1870s), garage, ice house site, two chicken houses, pump house, gate pillars, lamb barn,

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, dairy barn, calf barn, mill house, two pump houses, bull barn, and a

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and wagon shed. Many of the contributing outbuildings date to the 1950s. an
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in 2005.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1875 Neoclassical architecture in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses in Pulaski County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Virginia {{PulaskiCountyVA-NRHP-stub