Henrico Plaques

Meadow Farm
The farmhouse is a 1 1/2 story, clapboard structure on a 1810 English basement. The front porch is Greek Revival dating to the 1840's.

Green Acres
Green Acres is a vernacular style home. It recently has been restored. Part of the restoration includes replacing the original board and batten exterior.

Laurel Industrial School
The building is a two story square plan, Georgian Revival style structure with a pyramidal roof, full L-shaped porch and Tuscan columns. This property is one of several buildings in the Laurel Industrial School Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Historical Landmarks Register.

Winward
Incorporated in the present rambling Colonial style suburban house is a smaller Federal period dwelling which originally stood in Dinwiddie County. The original house was an unusual two-room plan with a four-bay front. After having stood vacant for a number of years, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Davis of Richmond purchased the house in 1936 and incorporated it into their new house. The front porch, and all present exterior detailing, except the windows and sash, are modern. The most notable feature of the building's interior is its Chinese trellis staircase, which is preserved in unaltered form.

Deep Run Church
The church is a good example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture. Deep Run Church features pointed arch windows, an important characteristic of this style. It is an early example of an Episcopal congregation. In 1792, the Baptists moved into the abandoned chapel. Ridge Baptist (c.1859), Quioccasin Baptist (c.1860) and Parham Road Baptist (c.1960) churches all formed from the Deep Run Church.

Ravenswood Farm
Built in the decade preceding the Civil War, Ravenswood is a standard two-story I-house with symmetrical three-bay front and rear elevations. General Robert E. Lee used Ravenswood for observation purposes in 1861 and 1862 because it had a direct view of Meadowbridge Road to below Mechanicsville. Both Lee and Jackson are said to have used the house as their temporary headquarters.

Skipwith Academy
Grey Skipwith, Sr., a midshipman in the Confederate navy purchased the original site, formerly "Fort Hill", a Civil War parade ground, in 1890. Lord Alfred Bosson designed Bekeby, an English style Tudor mansion, in 1927 for Admiral Grey Skipwith, Jr. The architecture of this home boasts 14-inch walls, 3 sandstone mantel fireplaces and a circular turret stairway with leaded stained glass windows painted with medieval scenes. A curved driveway to the mansion originally wound through wooded landscaped grounds to Three Chopt Road. Two brick pillars adorned the entrance. For 32 years, the building was the home of Mrs. Helen Dixon's nursery school.

Courtney Road Service Station
The Courtney Road Service Station is a prototype of a "house with a canopy" which originated in 1916 by the Standard Oil of Ohio for the transportation industry. It is the only restored early twentieth century service station in Henrico County. It is an excellent example of a service station created for the new transportation industry of cars and other vehicles.

Forest Lodge
The Forest Lodge was a luxurious hotel, which had 125 rooms an stood six stories high. It took six years to build and was completed in the early 1880's. A good example of a Victorian Lodge that had a colorful history associated with it.

Beth Elon
Beth Elon, on the Virginia Landmarks register, is an excellent example of a residence lived in by one family for over 100 years. The house is a good example of the Queen Anne style of architecture. Much of the interior detailing is retained including main stairway, doors, windows, moldings, mantels, lighting fixtures, hardware and flooring circa 1885. The original owners, Leslie and Laura Watson were both certified by the American Guild of Organists.

Cheswick
Cheswick is a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century one-and-a-half-story, center-hall plan farmhouse. It is an example of a nineteenth-century home of a local minister who supplemented his income by running a boarding school.