Sharp's Oakland is a historic home located at

Doswell Doswell is an unincorporated community in Hanover County in the Central Region of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. Originally called Hanover Junction, it was located on the Virginia Central Railroad (later, part of the C&O) at a crossing of t ...

, Hanover County, Virginia. It was built about 1890, and is a three-story, I-house frame dwelling in the Second Empire style. It features a high mansard roof still covered with patterned wooden shingles and a simple porch with Eastlake posts. Also on the property is a contributing slave quarter with a massive chimney. 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 ...

in 2002.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Second Empire architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1890 Houses in Hanover County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Hanover County, Virginia {{HanoverCountyVA-NRHP-stub