Amblers, also known as the Coke-Watts House, is a historic farmstead at 2205 Jamestown Road in

James City County, Virginia James City County is a county (United States), county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 78,254. Although politically separate from the county, the county seat is the ad ...

, just north of the Jamestown peninsula. Its main house is a handsome -story brick structure, built in 1852 in the country style promoted by

Andrew Jackson Downing Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, writer, prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of ''The Horticulturist'' magazine (1846–1852). ...

, and expanded with a sympathetically styled Colonial Revival addition in the 1950s. The property includes two surviving 19th-century brick farm outbuildings, and landscaping from the 1950s that is also considered historically significant. The property was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 2015.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1852 Houses in James City County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in James City County, Virginia 1852 establishments in Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{JamesCityCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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