Menokin, also known as the Francis Lightfoot Lee House, is a Georgian plantation house near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1769 for Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lightfoot Lee as a wedding gift from his father-in-law, Colonel John Tayloe II. The house survives today largely in ruins, though it retains roughly 80 percent of its original stonework, brick, framing and interior woodwork across its 590-acre grounds, and the Menokin Foundation has developed a restoration plan that fills missing sections with structural glass rather than traditional reconstruction. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountVirginia, United States 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
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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.
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1. Menokin (Wikipedia)
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Menokin, also known as the Francis Lightfoot Lee House, is a Georgian plantation house near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1769 for Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lightfoot Lee as a wedding gift from his father-in-law, Colonel John Tayloe II. The house survives today largely in ruins, though it retains roughly 80 percent of its original stonework, brick, framing and interior woodwork across its 590-acre grounds, and the Menokin Foundation has developed a restoration plan that fills missing sections with structural glass rather than traditional reconstruction. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
completion_date/completed = 1769
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Menokin, also known as Francis Lightfoot Lee House, was the plantation of Francis Lightfoot Lee near Warsaw, Virginia, built for him by his wife's father, Col. John Tayloe II, of nearby Mount Airy, the wealthiest planter in the country. Lee, a Founding Father, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Menokin was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
Historic American
In Style: Georgian Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Georgian
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia categories
Category:Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Virginia, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Virginia, United States
Wikidata item Q6817238, property P131/P17 (location): Virginia, United States
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