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Foster's Castle

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Foster's Castle is a historic plantation house near Tunstall, in New Kent County, Virginia, built about 1685 as a one and a half story, T shaped brick building with a two story central projection at the front. Its builder, Colonel Joseph Foster, was a vestryman and supervisor of construction at St. Peter's Church, and the house is similar to the neighboring house Criss Cross. It was raised to a full two stories under a low pitched roof in 1873. 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 Type
Plantation House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Virginia, United States 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1873 2
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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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.

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.

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1. Foster's Castle (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_Castle, lead definition
    Foster's Castle is a historic plantation house located near Tunstall, New Kent County, Virginia.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Foster's Castle is a historic plantation house near Tunstall, in New Kent County, Virginia, built about 1685 as a one and a half story, T shaped brick building with a two story central projection at the front. Its builder, Colonel Joseph Foster, was a vestryman and supervisor of construction at St. Peter's Church, and the house is similar to the neighboring house Criss Cross. It was raised to a full two stories under a low pitched roof in 1873.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
    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
  • In Style: American Colonial Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Colonial, Tudor-Stuart
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
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2. Foster's Castle (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1873)
    Wikidata item Q14712331, property P571: 1873
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 373865): Virginia, United States
    Wikidata item Q14712331, property P131/P17 (location): Virginia, United States
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