Castlewood

VA 10, Chesterfield, Virginia. County/parish: Chesterfield.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 21, 1976. NRIS 76002099.

2 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Poindexter House
  • The Old Parsonage

From Wikipedia:

Castlewood (Chesterfield, Virginia)

Castlewood, also known as the Poindexter House and The Old Parsonage, is a historic plantation house located near Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built between about 1810 and 1820, and is a long, five-part frame house that was built in at least two or three stages. It consists of a two-story, one-bay-wide central section, flanked by 1+12-story, two-bay wings, connected to the main block by one-story, one-bay hyphens. Also on the property is a contributing frame, pyramidal roofed structure with a coved cornice that may have housed a dairy.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680152

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