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Montpelier (Sperryville, Virginia)

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Montpelier is a historic plantation house near Sperryville, in Rappahannock County, Virginia, its main house built about 1750. It is a two story, eleven bay, stuccoed stone and brick dwelling under a side gable roof, consisting of a five bay main block flanked by three bay north and south wings, with a two story verandah running the full length of the house carried on eight large provincial Tuscan order columns; the property also carries a contributing smokehouse, storage house, and frame cabin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and from 2004 to 2009 was owned by the English conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton. 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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Building Type
Plantation House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Rappahannock County, United States 2
Completed Year
1750 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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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. Montpelier (Sperryville, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_(Sperryville,_Virginia), lead definition
    Montpelier is a historic plantation house located near Sperryville, Rappahannock County, Virginia.
  • infobox field: built=c. 1750
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Montpelier is a historic plantation house near Sperryville, in Rappahannock County, Virginia, its main house built about 1750. It is a two story, eleven bay, stuccoed stone and brick dwelling under a side gable roof, consisting of a five bay main block flanked by three bay north and south wings, with a two story verandah running the full length of the house carried on eight large provincial Tuscan order columns; the property also carries a contributing smokehouse, storage house, and frame cabin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and from 2004 to 2009 was owned by the English conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
    Montpelier is a historic plantation house located near Sperryville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1750, and is a two-story, 11 bay, stuccoed stone and brick dwelling with a side gable roof. It consists of a five-bay main block with north and south three bay wings. It features a two-story verandah stretching the entire length of the house with eight large provincial
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
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2. Montpelier (Sperryville, Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 387505): Rappahannock County, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 387505): Rappahannock County, United States
Wikidata item Q15255838, property P131/P17 (location): Rappahannock County, United States
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