Flat Rock
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Location | SW of Kenbridge on VA 655, near Kenbridge, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 36°56′15.5″N 78°8′57″W / 36.937639°N 78.14917°WCoordinates: 36°56′15.5″N 78°8′57″W / 36.937639°N 78.14917°W |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | c. 1797 |
NRHP reference # | 79003051 |
VLR # | 055-0003 |
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Added to NRHP | May 21, 1979 |
Designated VLR | December 19, 1978 |
Flat Rock is a historic plantation house located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in several sections during the first half of the 19th century. It is a two-story, three-bay frame structure flanked by one-story, one-bay wings. The oldest portion likely dates to about 1797. It has a side-gable roof and features two massive exterior end chimneys of brick and granite. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse and a mid-19th-century monument to Henry H. Chambers (1790–1826), son of an owner of Flat Rock and later a U.S. Senator from Alabama, who is buried here where he died en route to Washington.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.