Northern Neck Now

Located near Montross in Westmoreland County, Armstead T. Johnson High School was built in 1937. The school was one of

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, owned this riverside summer cottage in the Westmoreland County town of Colonial Beach

The formal, symmetrical arrangement of buildings and gardens of the great Tidewater colonial seats is present on a reduced scale

An imposing colonial mansion located in Richmond County, Bladensfield was built in the third quarter of the 18th century by

Robert Beverley II, member of one of Virginia’s great landed families, began planning the plantation mansion at Blandfield in the

Blenheim is the Westmoreland County plantation next to Pope’s Creek Plantation, birthplace of George Washington. The simple late Georgian dwelling

Bluff Point Graded School #3, built in 1912, exemplifies the local adaptations that commonly occurred in rural Virginia when residents

The diminutive proportions of this colonial plantation house, in Essex County’s Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District, may result from the fact

Bushfield is a two-and-a-half-story, Flemish-bond brick mansion designed by noted architect Waddy Butler Wood. Wood enlarged an 18th-century single-pile dwelling

Chantilly, overlooking the Currioman Bay in Westmoreland County, was originally part of the John Hallowes patent of 1650.  The property

The outbuildings, farm buildings, and residence at Cherry Walk in Essex County form an unusually complete Tidewater plantation complex of

The Chinn House, in Richmond County’s Town of Warsaw, was home to lawyer and judge Joseph William Chinn and his

Enhanced by its quiet rural setting, Christ Episcopal Church, Lancaster County, is without peer among Virginia’s colonial churches in the

The Chesapeake Bay’s once lively skipjack fleet, which numbered 600 to 700 boats in the last half of the 19th

Located near the Coan River on Northumberland County’s Cherry Point Neck, the two-room-plan Claughton-Wright House is a rare surviving example

The unpretentious frame dwelling of Cleydael was built in 1859 as a summer retreat in King George County for Dr.

Located on the outskirts of the town of Kilmarnock on the Lancaster/Northumberland county border, Clifton is a two-story weatherboarded residence

A well-articulated work of country Neoclassical architecture, the Coan Baptist Church was built in 1846 to serve the growing congregation

Cobbs Hall is historically significant as one of the plantations associated with the Lee family of Virginia. Built on land