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William E. Beckwith House

Coordinates: 38°46′46″N 77°23′16″W / 38.77950°N 77.38773°W / 38.77950; -77.38773
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William E. Beckwith House
William E. Beckwith House is located in Northern Virginia
William E. Beckwith House
William E. Beckwith House is located in Virginia
William E. Beckwith House
William E. Beckwith House is located in the United States
William E. Beckwith House
Location12752 Chapel Street, Clifton VA 20124, United States.
Coordinates38°46′46″N 77°23′16″W / 38.77950°N 77.38773°W / 38.77950; -77.38773
Built1771 (1771)
Architectural styleColonial

The William E. Beckwith House, also known as the Homestead[1], is a historic house in Clifton, Fairfax County, Virginia. This frame and weatherboard structure[2] contains the town of Clifton’s oldest remaining structure, a Colonial log house originally consisting of three rooms and a large stone hearth. It was part of the 200 acres left by planter William E. Beckwith (b. 1785 in Fairfax County[3]) to the sixteen enslaved people of his plantation, all of whom were freed in his will in 1863.

  1. ^ "The Wm. E. Beckwith House". nps-vip.net. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
  2. ^ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/194-0003_Clifton_HD_1985_Final_Nomination.pdf p. 7
  3. ^ https://www.cliftonva.gov/index_49_1256504561.pdf p. 1