Williamsville (Studley, Virginia)
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Williamsville is a historic home located at Studley,
Hanover County, Virginia Hanover 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 109,979. Its county seat is Hanover, Virginia, Hanover. Hanove ...
. The main house was built between 1794 and 1803, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick
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in the Federal style. It has a rear ell. The house features a one-story wood porch surmounted by a balustrade and sophisticated trim, including the fully developed modillioned cornice and the elaborate Adamesque mantels. an
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in 1985.


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Pollard House, Studley Road, Mechanicsville, Hanover County, VA
at the
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(HABS) Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1803 Houses in Hanover County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Hanover County, Virginia Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia {{HanoverCountyVA-NRHP-stub