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Mosby Tavern

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Mosby Tavern, also called the Old Cumberland Courthouse or the Littleberry Mosby House, is a National Register of Historic Places building in Powhatan County, Virginia, southeast of the intersection of U.S. Route 60 and State Route 629. It began as a small one-room house built by Benjamin Mosby in 1740 and remains a private residence today. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Hall and parlor house 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Virginia, United States 3
Completed Year
1741 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
House 2
Connections

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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Federal Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Mosby Tavern (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Timber, Architectural Materials
Source Mosby Tavern (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Mosby Tavern (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosby_Tavern, lead definition
    Mosby Tavern, also called Old Cumberland Courthouse or Littleberry Mosby House, is a National Register of Historic Places building in Powhatan County, Virginia.
  • infobox field: built=1741
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Mosby Tavern, also called the Old Cumberland Courthouse or the Littleberry Mosby House, is a National Register of Historic Places building in Powhatan County, Virginia, southeast of the intersection of U.S. Route 60 and State Route 629. It began as a small one-room house built by Benjamin Mosby in 1740 and remains a private residence today.
  • In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal
  • Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia article
    By the time Benjamin's grandson, Littleberry Mosby Jr, owned it in the early nineteenth century it was a one-story, hall-parlor plan frame dwelling shown on early nineteenth century insurance policies as 34' by 28'.
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2. Mosby Tavern (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Hall and parlor house)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Hall and parlor house)
Wikidata item Q14712898, instance of (P31): hall and parlor house
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3. Mosby Tavern (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Virginia, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Virginia, United States
Wikidata item Q14712898, property P131/P17 (location): Virginia, United States
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Wikidata: Mosby Tavern
Wikidata Q14712898, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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