Point of Rocks (Chester, Virginia)

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Point of Rocks
Point of Rocks (Chester, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Point of Rocks (Chester, Virginia)
Location 1005 Point of Rocks Rd., Chester, Virginia
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Area 10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built 1840 (1840)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 05000134[1]
VLR # 020-0123
Significant dates
Added to NRHP March 10, 2005
Designated VLR December 6, 2004[2]

Point of Rocks is a historic plantation house located near Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a one-story, three-bay, double pile dwelling with weatherboard siding and a low-pitched hipped standing seam metal roof in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a contributing garage. The property was the location of a Union military observation point and headquarters for General Benjamin F. Butler and hospital established in 1864 during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]

References

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