Poplar Hill (Smithfield, Virginia)

Poplar Hill is a historic home located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The house was built about 1793, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, frame, hall and parlor-plan dwelling. It has an early 19th-century lean-to rear addition, a post American Civil War kitchen addition, a 1920s one-room addition, and a screened-in front porch on the main facade. Also on the property are the contributing wash house, shed, garage, and stable, and the sites of a smokehouse, kitchen, carriage house, and ice house.^[3]

Poplar Hill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Poplar Hill in April, 2017
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Location	7968 Purvis Ln. (VA 673), 0.9 mi. NW of jct. with VA 677, near Smithfield, Virginia
Coordinates	37°2′5″N 76°40′54″W
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1793 (1793)
Architectural style	Early Republic
NRHP reference No.	95000975[1]
VLR No.	046-0096
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 18, 1995
Designated VLR	June 27, 1995[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
3. Marilyn S. Melchor (October 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Poplar Hill" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo