Chester Plantation is a historic mansion at 8401 Golf Course Drive in Disputanta, Prince George County, Virginia, its central section built around 1845 as a two-story, single-pile, center-hall-plan Greek Revival frame dwelling by Colonel Williamson Simmons, with a two-story, full-width porch carried on full-height Doric columns. A rear wing was added in 1854 and Colonial Revival wings were added in 1949 under Petersburg businessman Remmie L. Arnold, and the property's contributing outbuildings include an icehouse and well house from the 1840s. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, the house is now part of the Prince George Country Club Estates and Golf Course and operates as a restaurant and country inn. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A two-story rear wing was added in 1854, and flanking 1+1⁄2-story Colonial Revival style wings were added in 1949. Also on the property are the contributing icehouse and well house built in the 1840s, a secondary dwelling built in the 1920s, an open cart shed and concession building both constructed in the 1940s, and a swimming pool and pool house, dating from the 1940s when the estate was owned by prominent Petersburg businessman and politician Remmie L. Arnold.
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Chester Plantation is a historic plantation house located at Disputanta, Prince George County, Virginia. The central section of the mansion was built circa 1845, as a two-story, single-pile, center hall-plan, Greek Revival style frame dwelling by Colonel Williamson Simmons. Chester remained in the Simmons family until 1918. The front facade features a two-story full-width porch, with full-height
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The central section of the mansion was built circa 1845, as a two-story, single-pile, center hall-plan, Greek Revival style frame dwelling by Colonel Williamson Simmons.
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Wikidata item Q15209543, property P131/P17 (location): Prince George County, United States
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