Wallaceton
Chesapeake, United States
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Wallaceton is a historic Greek Revival dwelling in Chesapeake, Virginia, originally constructed between 1853 and 1863 as a company store. The 1½-story frame house features characteristic Greek Revival details including flat corner pilasters, a heavy box cornice beneath the eaves, and a full-width front porch. After the Civil War, the structure was enlarged, and around 1910 it was relocated approximately 100 feet eastward from the Dismal Swamp Canal to remove it from canal property. The property also includes a contributing two-room kitchen building and a dairy. Named for John Gallaudet Wallace, a farmer and businessman who served in the Confederate Army, Wallaceton was designated a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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- building
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, Virginia Historic Landmark
- Place
- Chesapeake, United States
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