Dixon (Shacklefords, Virginia)
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| Location | 402 Limehouse Rd., Shacklefords, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°35′07″N 76°47′29″W / 37.58528°N 76.79139°WCoordinates: 37°35′07″N 76°47′29″W / 37.58528°N 76.79139°W |
| Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
| Built | c. 1793 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 04001539 |
| VLR # | 049-0019 |
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| Added to NRHP | January 20, 2005 |
| Designated VLR | December 1, 2004 |
Dixon, also known as Dixon's Plantation, is a privately-owned historic plantation house in King and Queen County, Virginia on the Mattaponi River — a tributary of the York River in one of Virginia's historic slavery-dependent tobacco-growing regions. The property lies between the two unincorporated communities of Shacklefords and King and Queen Court House, Virginia.
Dated (by tree-rings) to 1793, the plantation's surviving central residence is a two-story, five bay, symmetrical frame house with a gambrel roof, brick foundation and brick end-walls — the latter featuring flemish bond and internal (rather than expressed) chimneys.
Located between two adjacent plantations, the earliest owners of the property were William Meredith and subsequently Richard Dixon, of whom little is known. The plantation and home are named after Richard Dixon, and he is credited with constructing the surviving residence.
At the time of its successful nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2005, Dixon was one of eight surviving gambrel-roof residences from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in King and Queen County, Virginia.
According to its NRHP nomination, the home features its original interior wood paneling, and noteworthy interior stairway detailing — the latter with sculptural railings, column and urn balusters (two per tread) and newel posts with molded caps and mortise and tenon construction.
Landside and waterside elevations are identical with double doors centered on each exterior elevation, flanked by two "nine-over-nine" sash windows and four horizontal basement windows. The second floor features five flat-headed dormers.
In the 1950's, flanking buildings were added, connected to the main house by segmented hyphens. Later additions which expanded the original five-bay home to a nine-bay home, were subsequently removed.
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