Rockwood is a historic house in the vicinity of Montpelier Station,

Orange County, Virginia Orange County is a county located in the Central Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,254. Its county seat is Orange. Orange County includes Montpelier, the estate of James Madison, the ...

. It was built in 1848 and is a -story frame house which was designed in a blend of the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

and

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 ...

styles. The house sits on a brick

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 ...

and has an offset sharply pitched cross-gable roof. 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 ...

on July 5, 2001.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Carpenter Gothic houses in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1848 Houses in Orange County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Virginia {{OrangeCountyVA-NRHP-stub