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Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)

Coordinates: 36°56′15.5″N 78°8′57″W / 36.937639°N 78.14917°W / 36.937639; -78.14917
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Flat Rock
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Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)
Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia) is located in the United States
Flat Rock (Kenbridge, Virginia)
LocationSW of Kenbridge on VA 655, near Kenbridge, Virginia
Coordinates36°56′15.5″N 78°8′57″W / 36.937639°N 78.14917°W / 36.937639; -78.14917
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc. 1797 (1797)
NRHP reference No.79003051[1]
VLR No.055-0003
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 21, 1979
Designated VLRDecember 19, 1978[2]

Flat Rock is a historic plantation house located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in several sections during the first half of the 19th century. It is a two-story, three-bay frame structure flanked by one-story, one-bay wings. The oldest portion likely dates to about 1797. It has a side-gable roof and features two massive exterior end chimneys of brick and granite. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse and a mid-19th-century monument to Henry H. Chambers (1790–1826), son of an owner of Flat Rock and later a U.S. Senator from Alabama, who is buried here where he died en route to Washington.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (December 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Flat Rock" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo