Sunnyside is a historic plantation house located at Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in three sections: a one-room, two-story, three-bay frame dwelling with a side passage, built in 1833; a two-story, three bay I-house, begun in 1836 in front of the first dwelling and connected to it by a one-story hyphen; and a two-story, one room, one-bay addition built in 1837. Also on the property are the contributing late-19th century kitchen, an early-to-mid-19th century servant's quarter, an early-to-mid-19th century smokehouse, a mid-19th century shed, an early-20th century chicken house, the site of a 19th-century ice pit, a 19th and early 20th century tenant house / tobacco processing barn, three late 19th or early-20th century log tobacco barns, a 19th-century log tenant house, and the Carrington / Johnson family cemetery.[3]
Sunnyside | |
 Facade and western end | |
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| Location | 104 Shiney Rock Rd., Clarksville, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°36′47″N 78°34′16″W / 36.61306°N 78.57111°W |
| Area | 25 acres (10 ha) |
| Built | 1833-1837 |
| Architectural style | I-house |
| NRHP reference No. | 96001452[1] |
| VLR No. | 192-0002 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 6, 1996 |
| Designated VLR | June 19, 1996[2] |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Margarita Jerabek Wuellner and Elizabeth Barthold O'Brien (December 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sunnyside" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo