Howard's Neck Plantation

Howard's Neck Plantation is a historic residential and agricultural complex near the unincorporated community of Pemberton in Goochland County, Virginia. It is not documented in the supplied sources as a commercial brand, operating company, consumer product, or service business; the name identifies a historic property and National Register-listed site. The principal house was built around 1825. It is a two-story, three-bay brick building designed in the Federal style. Its architecture includes a shallow deck-on-hip roof and a small, formally proportioned tetrastyle portico using the Roman Doric order. The house has been described as comparable in style to work associated with architect Robert Mills, although the supplied reference does not establish that Mills designed the property. The plantation complex includes a range of contributing buildings that document the site's agricultural and domestic history. These include a one-story frame building believed to be the original colonial-era farm dwelling, a twentieth-century frame house, an early nineteenth-century brick kitchen, two frame smokehouses, a frame tool house, two early carriage houses, a harness house, a manager's house, a substantial tobacco barn, and three log slave quarters. Together, the buildings represent multiple periods of occupation and the labor, household, agricultural, and transportation functions of a historic Virginia plantation. Howard's Neck Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The supplied material does not identify a current owner, operating organization, public visitation policy, preservation program, commercial activity, or present physical condition. It therefore should be treated as a historic place rather than as a conventional brand. Additional research would be needed to establish ownership, accessibility, later alterations, and the property's current preservation status.

Howard's Neck Plantation is a historic property located near Pemberton in Goochland County, Virginia. The supplied historical material indicates that the site developed over several periods and contains buildings associated with plantation agriculture, domestic life, management, storage, transportation, and enslaved labor. The main dwelling dates to approximately 1825. It is a two-story, three-bay brick house in the Federal style, with a shallow deck-on-hip roof and a compact tetrastyle portico employing the Roman Doric order. The architectural form has been compared with work by Robert Mills, but the available reference does not identify an architect or document a direct connection to Mills. The principal house forms only part of the historic complex. Other contributing resources include a one-story frame house reportedly representing the original colonial-era farm dwelling; a twentieth-century frame house; an early nineteenth-century brick kitchen; two frame smokehouses; a frame tool house; two early carriage houses; a harness house; a manager's house; a sizable tobacco barn; and three log slave quarters. The surviving buildings provide evidence of the site's changing agricultural organization and the different groups and activities that sustained the plantation. The inclusion of three log slave quarters is especially important to interpreting the property as more than an architectural example of Federal-era domestic design. These structures connect the site's built environment to the history of enslaved labor in Virginia, while the kitchen, smokehouses, tobacco barn, manager's house, and agricultural outbuildings reflect the economic and operational systems of the plantation. Howard's Neck Plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The supplied sources do not provide a detailed ownership chronology, a complete account of the property's construction before 1825, information about restoration or alterations, or details about its current use and accessibility. They also do not identify any commercial brand activity. Accordingly, the property is best catalogued as a National Register historic house and plantation complex, with its significance grounded in architecture, agricultural history, and the material history of plantation-era Virginia.

• 1972

  National Register listing

  [1]Howard's Neck Plantationen.wikipedia.org

  Howard's Neck Plantation was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places.

• 1825

  Construction of the principal house

  [1]Howard's Neck Plantationen.wikipedia.org

  The principal two-story brick residence was built around this date in the Federal style.

A historic Virginia plantation and architectural site rather than a documented commercial brand.

1. 1Howard's Neck Plantationen.wikipedia.org