Wheatland is a historic

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

located at Callao,

Northumberland County, Virginia Northumberland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 11,839. Its county seat is Heathsville. The county is located on the Northern Neck and is part of the Northern Neck George Was ...

, United States. It was built between 1848 and 1850, and consists of a -story, five-bay,

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style frame main block flanked by symmetrical -story wings. It measures 96 feet long, and is topped by a gable roof. The front and rear facades features two-tier

Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of c ...

porticos. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen (c. 1848–1850), office (c. 1848–1850), North Yard and South Yard houses (c. 1848–1850), barn (late-19th / early-20th century), tenant house (c. 1920–1935), and early 20th century

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.

. 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 ...

in 1988.

References

Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1850 Houses in Northumberland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Northumberland County, Virginia {{NorthumberlandCountyVA-NRHP-stub