087-0098

Sunnyside

VLR Listing Date

10/21/1981

NRHP Listing Date

07/08/1982

NRHP Reference Number

82004596

The Southampton County plantation of Sunnyside contains one of southeastern Virginia’s most complete groupings of domestic and farm outbuildings. The complex is scattered about an architecturally evolved main residence and includes a schoolmaster’s house, dairy, tenant’s house, smokehouse, kitchen, various sheds, and a peanut house which together maintain the village-like image that dominated a traditional Virginia plantation. The house itself began as a one-room structure built ca. 1810-11 for Joseph Pope. Sunnyside was remodeled and enlarged in 1847 and again in 1870 by his son Harrison who was among the county’s most ambitious 19th-century planters. The porticoed front section, which combines Greek Revival and Italianate elements, is one of the region’s few Reconstruction-period structures with architectural pretension.

Last Updated: April 28, 2024

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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark

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Nomination Form

087-0045

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(MPD) Multiple Property Document

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