A stately mansion, beautiful rolling farmland, exquisite gardens, over 200 years of American history and culture – all of these can be found at Oatlands Historic House and Gardens situated on historic Route 15 near Leesburg, Virginia. Built in 1804 b... Read More

The process of this building's construction is as unusual as its shape. The construction of the home was begun about 1870 by Dr. Henry Quincy Adams Bowyer. It was sold to Rev. Dexter A. Snow in 1874 whom had the construction completed. This octagon m... Read More

Come visit the Old Brick Hotel where past boarders include lawyers and judges, hot springs visitors, and maybe Jesse James. The three-story brick building was built in three stages beginning in 1840. Right across the street from the Craig County Cour... Read More

1769 Old Chapel Church in Penhook is one of only four pre-Revolutionary War frame Anglican churches in Virginia. Built in 1769, it is the oldest documented frame structure in Southwest Virginia. The one-story, 249 year old church has been preserve... Read More

Completed in 1812 to serve the 1783 Pittsylvania courthouse, the former clerk's office is the oldest public building in the town of Chatham. Built to be the chief repository of the county's official records, it served from 1813 to 1852 under the char... Read More

This building served as the Middlesex County courthouse from 1748 to 1852. Although much altered from its original appearance, it is one of Virginia's rare colonial courthouse buildings. During the American Revolution, the local Committee of Safety m... Read More

Records indicate that Old Providence was in existence as a congregation in mid-summer, 1742. At that time it was known as the South Mountain Meeting House. The Baptismal Records of the Rev. John Craig indicate he performed baptisms that summer. Appar... Read More

This simple country church housed Halifax County's first Presbyterian congregation. Presbyterians began to spread through the southern Piedmont in the mid-18th century. By 1830 they were determined to have a more conveniently located meetinghouse and... Read More

Built in 1828, the stone jail was designed by John Hartwell Cocke and its construction managed by John G. Hughes and Richard McCary. Skilled brick and stone masons enslaved by John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo, likely including Peyton Skipwith and Charles... Read More

Scotch-Irish settlers built this stone meeting house for worship in 1788, when Winchester was a thriving frontier village. It was in this church that the first Sunday School South of the Mason-Dixon line was organized in 1815. General Daniel Morgan o... Read More

The Old Thomas James Store is an excellent example of an early-19th-century commercial building now long absent from the rural Virginia landscape. Researchers have identified this 1810 building in the Mathews Downtown Historic District as being one o... Read More

Welcome to Old Town Hall, the perfect place for a wedding, party or meeting. Old Town Hall is located in the heart of the nationally recognized City of Fairfax Historic District at 3999 University Drive. Adjacent to the Old Town Hall and historic ... Read More

Harrisonburg's Old Town Historic District is a well-preserved neighborhood of late-19th- through mid-20th-century houses. Many of Harrisonburg's prominent families have resided in the district, representing collectively much of the story of the city'... Read More

The Old Turner Place is located just west of the small village of Henry on a creek called Larkin's Branch. A two-story log house with tall sandstone chimneys and a log smokehouse, both dating to the late-18th or early-19th centuries, are on the prope... Read More

Opequon is the oldest Presbyterian congregation West of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Organized in 1732, it has had continuous worship services since its founding and is commonly referred to as the "Mother Church of the Valley." In the church yard is the... Read More