Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia)

Vaucluse
Vaucluse, HABS Photo
Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia)
Location within Virginia
Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia) is located in the United States
Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia)
Location within the United States
LocationSouth of the junction of Rtes. 619 and 657, near Bridgetown, Virginia
Coordinates37°25′05″N 75°58′23″W / 37.41806°N 75.97306°W / 37.41806; -75.97306
Area1,000.8 acres (405.0 ha)
Built1784 (1784), 1829, 1899
Built byUpshur, Littleton
NRHP reference No.70000814[1]
VLR No.065-0028
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 15, 1970
Designated VLRDecember 2, 1969[2]

Vaucluse is a historic plantation house located near Bridgetown, Northampton County, Virginia. Vaucluse was placed on the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1969 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.[1]

History

Diarist William Byrd wrote of an early owner, attorney Andrew Hamilton, that he has "bad character and he got the estate nobody knows how".[3] In 1812 it was acquired by Richmond attorney and delegate and later Navy Secretary and Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844) who died in the USS Princeton disaster of 1844. His brother U.S. Navy Commander George P. Upshur (1799–1852), owned nearby Caserta from 1836 to 1847.[4]

Descendants of Littleton Upshur and Arthur Upshur IV reacquired it in 1984.[5]

Architecture

The complex, two-story, ell-shaped brick and frame structure features a gable roof. Attached to the house is a 1+1⁄2-story quarter kitchen with brick ends. The house's brickended section was built about 1784, and an addition added in 1829. During restoration and removal of a baseboard, a note names the painter as Angelo A. Townsend.[6]The annex connecting the house with the old kitchen was probably added in 1889.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ William S. Nicholson: Historic Homes and Churches of Virginia's Eastern Shore (Accomac: Atlantic Publications Inc. 1984), p. 130
  4. ↑ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (November 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Caserta" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
  5. ↑ Nicholson p. 130
  6. ↑ Nicholson,, p. 130
  7. ↑ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (May 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Vaucluse" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


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