Fighting Creek Plantation

Fighting Creek Plantation
Road entrance, 2018
Location 1811 Mill Quarter Road, Powhatan, Virginia
Coordinates 37°31′06″N 77°54′48″W / 37.51833°N 77.91333°W / 37.51833; -77.91333Coordinates: 37°31′06″N 77°54′48″W / 37.51833°N 77.91333°W / 37.51833; -77.91333
Area 4.3 acres (1.7 ha)
Built 1841 (1841)
Architectural style Italianate, Classical Revival
NRHP reference # 13000890[1]
Added to NRHP December 3, 2013

The Fighting Creek Plantation is a historic plantation house at 1811 Mill Quarter Road in Powhatan, Virginia. It is one of a few surviving mid-19th century plantation houses in the state. The two story stucco manor house was built c. 1841, supposedly to a design by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It was built for John Brockenbrough Harvie and his wife as the main house of their nearly 1,700-acre (690 ha) plantation. The property now associated with the house has been reduced to just 4.3 acres (1.7 ha). Its main facade features a two-story portico with square Doric columns, topped by a pedimented gable. On each level under the portico there is a door, with round-arch windows flanking it on either side.[2]

The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[1]

Colorized photo, c. 1890

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Fighting Creek Plantation" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-03-02.


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