Burlington (Barboursville, Virginia)
Burlington is a historic plantation house near Barboursville in Orange County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1851–1852. It is a two-story, three-bay, T-shaped Greek Revival dwelling with a shallow hip roof and an ell.
The front features a portico with six Ionic columns and a plain horizontal entablature, plus a second-floor Jeffersonian Chinese lattice balcony. Much of the exterior and interior detailing comes from Asher Benjamin’s The Practical House Carpenter (1830 edition).
The house was built by James Barbour Newman, nephew of Governor James Barbour. Burlington sits on about 200 acres. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 and is also listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register (1993).
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