Woodlawn is a historic home located near Oilville,

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. It is dated to the late 18th century, and is a two-story, five-bay brick structure with 12 fireplaces in the

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style. It has a small porch supported on four evenly spaced square columns with Ionic order capitals added around 1810. The house still has much of its original glass and original woodwork, and a formal boxwood garden with some of the box trees well over a century old. A one-story frame kitchen and a long frame porch were both added in 1937. an
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/ref> This is the oldest of five historic houses in Virginia that are named "Woodlawn". Others can be found listed under Woodlawn, Virginia. It was listed on the

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in 1971.

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