Northern Neck Now

The compact plantation house of Indian Banks stands on land in Richmond County patented by Thomas Glascock in 1652. Traditionally

Proudly placed atop a high ridge with a sweeping view of the Rappahannock River Valley, Grove Mount was built ca

Farnham Church in Richmond County has survived abandonment, wars, and fire. Dominating its tiny crossroads settlement, the church was built

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

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

Wheatland was built in 1840 as the centerpiece of a 1,300-acre plantation in Northumberland County. One of the Northern Neck’s

A tall weatherboarded I-house fronted by a two-tier portico, Versailles is one of several surviving manifestations of a domestic form

On the Northumberland County property formerly known as Roadview, the earliest section of The Anchorage was built in the second

The Academy is an excellent example of a small central-passage-plan house of sophisticated Tidewater Federal-style architecture. It and its twin,

Sunnyside represents the successful mid-19th-century farmstead complex typical of Virginia’s Northern Neck. The I-house form and Federal-style woodwork of the