Arrowhead (Charlottesville, Virginia)
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Arrowhead, also known as Arrowhead at Red Hill, is a historic home and farm complex located near
Charlottesville Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States. It is the seat of government of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Quee ...
,
Albemarle County, Virginia Albemarle County is a United States county (United States), county located in the Piedmont region of Virginia, Piedmont region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottes ...
. It consists of a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed frame center section dated to the 1850s; a two-story, multi-bay north extension added in the early 1900s; and a two-bay, two-story library wing added about 1907–1908. The interior features
Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
style details. Also on the property are a one-story frame kitchen building, a brick
smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is curing (food preservation), cured with Smoking (cooking), smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.icehouse (now a garage), and a -story board-and-batten cottage. an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1991.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1860 Houses in Albemarle County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia U.S. Route 29 {{AlbemarleCountyVA-NRHP-stub