Rochambeau Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near

Manakin-Sabot Manakin-Sabot, consisting of the villages of Manakin and Sabot, is an unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. It is located northwest of Richmond in the Piedmont and is part of the Greater Richmond region. History A ...

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. The main dwelling was built about 1855, and is an "L"-shaped full two-story frame structure set on a common bond brick foundation in the

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style. It has a low

hip roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

and three single-story

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porches. Also on the property are the contributing library (c. 1750–1810), the woodshed with a three-hole

privy Privy is an old-fashioned term for an outdoor toilet, often known as an outhouse and by many other names. Privy may also refer to: * Privy council, a body that advises the head of state * Privy mark, a small mark in the design of a coin * Privy Pur ...

in the rear, the old

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(now farm office) with attached toolshed, lumber shed, the garage, the new smoke house (1917/18), a chicken house, milk cow barn (near ruin), run-in shed, two-stall horse barn (near ruin), and hay storage barn (1965) with

tack room TACK is a group of archaea acronym for Thaumarchaeota (now Nitrososphaerota), Aigarchaeota, Crenarchaeota (now Thermoproteota), and Korarchaeota, the first groups discovered. They are found in different environments ranging from acidophilic th ...

(1997). One contributing structure and two contributing sites include the original farm house well, the site of the old ice house and the vegetable garden, containing an

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. an
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in 1999.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1855 Houses in Goochland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Goochland County, Virginia {{GoochlandCountyVA-NRHP-stub