Ben Dover (Manakin-Sabot, Virginia)

Ben Dover
Location 661 River Rd. W #36, Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
Coordinates 37°36′24″N 77°44′39″W / 37.60667°N 77.74417°W / 37.60667; -77.74417Coordinates: 37°36′24″N 77°44′39″W / 37.60667°N 77.74417°W / 37.60667; -77.74417
Area 193.9 acres (78.5 ha)
Built 1853 (1853)
Architectural style Italianate, Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 00000311[1]
VLR # 037-0078
Significant dates
Added to NRHP April 14, 2000
Designated VLR June 17, 1998[2]

Ben Dover, also known as Ben Dover Farm, is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Manakin-Sabot in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 8 contributing sites, and 10 contributing structures. The main dwelling was built in 1853 as an Italianate style villa and later transformed in 1930 with a Colonial Revival facade in place to mask decades of deterioration and poor patchwork. Contributing buildings include tenant houses, a converted servants quarters, a garage, a number of barns and sheds, a bowling alley, a smokehouse, and a stable. Contributing structures include three water towers, two well houses, animal feeders, a chicken coop, a silo and a swimming pool. The eight sites include stone foundations or sites of buildings no longer standing including two ruinous barns, a bridge ruin, an old road trace, and remains of landscape terracing. They represent the evolution of the Virginia farm from the mid-19th century to the present.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Heather M. MacIntosh (January 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ben Dover" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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