Foster's Castle
Appearance
Foster's Castle | |
Location | Northeast of Tunstall off VA 608, near Tunstall, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°35′20″N 77°04′42″W / 37.58889°N 77.07833°W |
Area | 340 acres (140 ha) |
Built | c. 1685 | , 1873
Architectural style | Colonial, Tudor-Stuart |
NRHP reference No. | 73002044[1] |
VLR No. | 063-0003 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 11, 1973 |
Designated VLR | January 16, 1973[2] |
Foster's Castle is a historic plantation house located near Tunstall, New Kent County, Virginia. It was built about 1685, as a 1+1⁄2-story, T-shaped brick building, with a two-story central projection at the front. The house is similar to neighboring Criss Cross. It was raised to a full two stories with a low pitched roof in 1873. Its builder, Colonel Joseph Foster, was a vestryman and supervisor of construction at St. Peter's Church.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Fosters_Castle_HABS.jpg/220px-Fosters_Castle_HABS.jpg)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (October 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Foster's Castle" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
External links
[edit]- Castle, State Route 608 vicinity, Tunstall, New Kent County, VA 6 photos, 13 measured drawings, and 5 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Categories:
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia
- Houses completed in 1685
- Houses in New Kent County, Virginia
- Plantation houses in Virginia
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in New Kent County, Virginia
- 1685 establishments in Virginia
- Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
- Virginia Peninsula Registered Historic Place stubs