Trenton, also known as the "Brick House," is a historic plantation home located near

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, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1829, and is a -story, brick dwelling with a center-passage, double-pile floor plan, in the

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style. It has transitional elements of the Early Classical Revival style. A one-story, shed roofed addition was built about 1960. Also on the property are a contributing stable (c. 1930), brick shed/

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, (c. 1930), grading building (c. 1950), and family

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. In 1936, the property was acquired by the

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and conveyed by deed to the Department of Conservation and Economic Development in 1954. Since then, it was used as the State Forest superintendent's home for the Cumberland State Forest until 1990. an
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in 2005.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Neoclassical architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1829 Houses in Cumberland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Virginia {{CumberlandCountyVA-NRHP-stub