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Wormeley Cottage

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c. 1742. Virginia St.

A good surviving example of the typical eighteenth-century “middling class” house, this weatherboarded frame structure has a side-hall plan, a massive end chimney, and a steeply pitched roof with dormers.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Data

  • Location:
    Urbanna, Virginia
    Regional Overviews:
    The Peninsulas, Middlesex County
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    Parent Entry: Urbanna

What's Nearby

Lansdowne
Van Wagenen House
Middleesex County Women's Club (Old Courthouse)
Urbanna Baptist Church
Urbanna Public Library (Old Tobacco Warehouse)

Citation

Richard Guy Wilson et al., "Wormeley Cottage", [Urbanna, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-PE30.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 342-342.

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