Plain Dealing is a historic home located near Keene,

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. It is an H-shaped dwelling, consisting of a two-story main block and a parallel -story rear wing connected by a two-story

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. The two-story main section was built about 1787, and the -story wing may predate it. The front facade is five bays wide, and features an original tetrastyle porch supported on

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in 1980.

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Photographs of Plain Dealing in the Library of Congress, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, 1933
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1787 Houses in Albemarle County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia 1787 establishments in Virginia {{AlbemarleCountyVA-NRHP-stub