Chellowe is a historic plantation house located on county route 623 in Buckingham County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1820 and modified about 1840. It is a two-story, three part, frame dwelling with

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and Classical Revival style detailing. It features a two-story tetrastyle

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with Chippendale railings. Also on the property are a contributing kitchen (c. 1800), office (c. 1840), and garden terraces developed in the 19th century. an
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Carpenter Gothic houses in Virginia Neoclassical architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1840 Houses in Buckingham County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Buckingham County, Virginia {{BuckinghamCountyVA-NRHP-stub