Plain Dealing (Keene, Virginia)

Plain Dealing is a historic home located near Keene, Albemarle County, Virginia. It is an H-shaped dwelling, consisting of a two-story main block and a parallel 1+1⁄2-story rear wing connected by a two-story hyphen. The two-story main section was built about 1787, and the 1+1⁄2-story wing may predate it. The front facade is five bays wide, and features an original tetrastyle porch supported on Doric order piers.^[3]

Plain Dealing, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1933. Original frame house built for John Biswell in 1761 and enlarged in 1789

Plain Dealing
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Plain Dealing, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, 1933
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Location	East of Keene, near Keene, Virginia
Coordinates	37°51′38″N 78°31′54″W
Area	11.5 acres (4.7 ha)
Built	c. 1787 (1787)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	80004165[1]
VLR No.	002-0065
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 6, 1980
Designated VLR	May 17, 1977[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[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 2013-05-12.
3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (May 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Plain Dealing" (PDF). Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

External links

• Photographs of Plain Dealing in the Library of Congress, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, 1933