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Bloomsburg (Watkins House)

Coordinates: 36°37′59″N 79°1′16″W / 36.63306°N 79.02111°W / 36.63306; -79.02111
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Bloomsburg (Watkins House)
Kitchen outbuilding
Bloomsburg (Watkins House) is located in Virginia
Bloomsburg (Watkins House)
Bloomsburg (Watkins House) is located in the United States
Bloomsburg (Watkins House)
Location9000 U.S. Route 58, southwest of South Boston, Virginia
Coordinates36°37′59″N 79°1′16″W / 36.63306°N 79.02111°W / 36.63306; -79.02111
Area92.3 acres (37.4 ha)
Built1839 (1839)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.100001509[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 28, 2017

Bloomsburg, also known as the Watkins House, is a historic plantation estate located at 9000 Philpott Road (United States Route 58) southwest of South Boston, Halifax County, Virginia. The main house was completed about 1839, after seven years of construction, by Alexander Watkins, a local farmer and businessman. It is a two-story brick structure, with a Greek temple portico that appears to be a 20th-century addition, but is by lore similar to an original one. The house is one of Halifax County's early Greek Revival plantation houses.[2]

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Bloomsburg (Watkins House)" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved 2017-10-13.