The Academy is a historic home located at Heathsville,

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. It was built about 1800, and is a 1½-story, brick house in the Tidewater

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style. It is topped by a gabled standing seam metal roof. The interior preserves a large quantity of original woodwork including the original stair. Also on the property are the contributing early-19th century brick smokehouse and a barn (1929). The house was restored between 1994 and 1997. an
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in 1997.

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