Stratford Hall is a historic house museum in Westmoreland County, Virginia, that served as the plantation house of four generations of the Lee family. It was the boyhood home of Declaration of Independence signers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, and the birthplace of Robert E. Lee, who commanded the armies of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. The estate was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is cared for by the National Park Service.
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Building Type LocationWestmoreland County, Virginia, United States 1 Completed Year Building Type
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Stratford Hall is a historic house museum in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.
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a historic house museum
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Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States
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Stratford Hall is the boyhood home of two Founding Fathers of the United States and signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), and Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797). Stratford Hall is also the birthplace of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), who was General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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Designed by an unknown architect, the brick Great House is a two-story H-shaped structure, surrounded on four corners by attending outbuildings, all of which still stand today.
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