Nanzatico 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 ...

located at King George Court House,

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. It was built about 1770, and is a frame, two-story structure, seven-bays wide, with a hipped roof, and two interior end chimneys. The front facade features an engaged

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consisting of heroic pilasters, entablature, and bulls-eye pediment. Also on the property are the contributing square frame smokehouse, a frame summer kitchen, and a frame schoolhouse or office. Next to

Mount Vernon Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States, and his wife, Martha. An American landmar ...

, Nanzatico is probably the most formal frame colonial mansion in Virginia. an
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in 1969.

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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Colonial architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1770 Houses in King George County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in King George County, Virginia 1770 establishments in the Colony of Virginia {{KingGeorgeCountyVA-NRHP-stub