Sabine Hall is a historic house located near

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. Built about 1730 by noted planter, burgess and patriot

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(1710–1778), it is one of Virginia's finest Georgian brick manor houses. Numerous descendants served in the Virginia General Assembly. It was added to the

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in 1969, and declared a

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in 1970. At the time of its National Register listing, it was still owned by Carter / Wellford descendants.

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Sabine Hall is located in a rural setting south of

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, on a ridge overlooking the

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to the south. The plantation property on which it stands extends as far east as Jugs Creek, and north and west to United States Route 360. The main plantation house is a two-story, brick and stone,

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style manor house. It is flanked by later -story brick wings. The center of its main facade is dominated by a two-story four-column portico with pedimented gable. The interior features a fully paneled central hall measuring , and an ornate carved walnut stairway that has been described as one of the finest in the nation. The house overlooks six gardened terraces descending to the river. The central core of the plantation house was built by noted planter

(1710–1778) in about 1730. In 1764 the house was enlarged to join the kitchen outbuilding (since demolished) via a covered passage. One of the wings was added at an unknown date; the other was added in 1929 to give the building visual symmetry. an
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History

Landon Carter's firstborn son and heir

Robert Wormeley Carter Robert Wormeley Carter (June 17, 1734-1797) (sometimes nicknamed "Robin" by his father) was a Virginia planter and patriot who served in the House of Burgesses, all five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions, and briefly in the Virginia House of Dele ...

, who would be the first owner to serve in the

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finished or remodeled parts of the interior, purchasing cabinetry and other items from

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who built the neighboring Mount Airy for Col. John Tayloe II. His son, another Landon Carter, would marry Tayloe's daughter Catharine Tayloe. His grandson, Robert W. Carter, who would serve in both the Virginia House of Delegates and

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before dying at Sabine Hall in October 1861, also remodeled the property in the 1840s and 1850s. His only surviving child, a daughter, married Dr. Armistead Wellford of Fredericksburg, who received a federal pardon at the war's end. Their son, Robert Carter Wellford (1853-1919) would inherit Sabine Hall and also serve in the Virginia House of Delegates.

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Encyclopedia Virginia: Sabine Hall
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