Shadow Lawn is a historic home located at Chase City,

Mecklenburg County, Virginia Mecklenburg County is a county (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 30,319. Its county seat is Boydton, Virginia, Boydton. His ...

. The original section dates to about 1834, with the main

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

style front section designed by

Jacob W. Holt Jacob W. Holt (March 30, 1811 September 21, 1880) was an American carpenter and builder-architect in Warrenton, North Carolina. Some twenty or more buildings are known to have been built by him or are attributed to him and his workshop by local ...

and built in 1869–1870. The house is two stories tall and three bays wide with a cross gable roof. It has a traditional central-passage, double-pile plan. an
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in 1982.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1859 Houses in Mecklenburg County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, Virginia {{MecklenburgCountyVA-NRHP-stub