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Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia)

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Oakley is a historic plantation house in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop Jr. as a wedding present for his daughter Clementina; Alsop, who also built the nearby houses Kenmore, Spotswood Inn, and Fairview, raised Oakley in the Federal and Georgian style as a two and a half story home from bricks fired in two kilns on the property, on land that had come down from a 7,777 acre royal grant to Gawain Corbin before Alsop bought 849 acres of it in 1816. The house stood near several major Civil War battles and was ransacked by soldiers passing through during one two day span, though a Union soldier disobeyed orders to burn it, and in the later nineteenth century it fell into neglect and was used more as a barn than a home before passing through a failed silver and gold mining venture to the Beals family, who have owned it since 1926; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2002. 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 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Virginia, United States 2
Completed Year
1828 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Plantation 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 Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
Georgian Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia) (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Brick, Architectural Materials
Source Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
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1. Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakley_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia), lead definition
    Oakley is a historic plantation and home located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Virginia.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Oakley is a historic plantation house in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop Jr. as a wedding present for his daughter Clementina; Alsop, who also built the nearby houses Kenmore, Spotswood Inn, and Fairview, raised Oakley in the Federal and Georgian style as a two and a half story home from bricks fired in two kilns on the property, on land that had come down from a 7,777 acre royal grant to Gawain Corbin before Alsop bought 849 acres of it in 1816. The house stood near several major Civil War battles and was ransacked by soldiers passing through during one two day span, though a Union soldier disobeyed orders to burn it, and in the later nineteenth century it fell into neglect and was used more as a barn than a home before passing through a failed silver and gold mining venture to the Beals family, who have owned it since 1926; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2002.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1828)
    completion_date/completed = 1828
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation)
    Oakley is a historic plantation and home located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Virginia. The Federal/Georgian style, 2+1⁄2-story home was built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. as a wedding present for his daughter, Clementina. Alsop built several notable houses in Spotsylvania County including Kenmore, Spotswood Inn, and Fairview. Oakley was part of a grant of 7,777 acres (3,147 ha) given to Gawa
  • In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal / Georgian
  • In Style: Georgian Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal / Georgian
  • Uses Element: Brick, Introduction
    The Georgian home was built using bricks made in two kilns that Alsop built on the property.
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2. Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 387509): Virginia, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 387509): Virginia, United States
Wikidata item Q7074137, property P131/P17 (location): Virginia, United States
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