Pear Valley represents a rare survival of what was once a common building type in rural Virginia. This yeoman planter's cottage has been dated by to 1740.

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Built by Eleazor Arnold in 1693, the Arnold House is a rare surviving example of a "stone-ender," a once common building type first developed in the western part of England.

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Built by Richard Clemence in 1691, the Clemence-Irons House is a rare surviving example of a "stone-ender," a once-common building type first developed in the western part of England.

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Built around 1687 for the young family of William Boardman, a local joiner, this house has survived remarkably intact since its construction.

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Constructed between 1694 and 1701 for a farming family, the Abraham Browne House was originally a modest one-over-one dwelling, probably with a minor dependency to one side. Although the house has evolved through a series of enlargements, they occurred behind the original block, thus preserving the profile of the one-over-one elevation (the only exception to this was a 19th-century addition which was removed before 1919). The Browne House is one of fewer than a half dozen houses in New England to retain this profile.

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Built in 1665, the well-crafted timber-framed house—complete with binding and bridging summer beams, a large number of connecting joints, and interior finish trim—attests to the wealth and social standing of the home's builder and first owner, Eleazor Gedney. Gedney was a successful shipwright related by marriage to John Turner, builder of the House of Seven Gables. The house is significant not only for its structural carpentry, but also for its evidence of early decorative finishes in the hall chamber and parlor. The introduction of lath and plaster ceilings, beam casings, and paneled walls by the mid 18th century preserved the colorful paint evidence underneath.

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Built by Stephen Swett in 1670, the original portion of the house was constructed on a single-room plan with chimney bay and faced south. It was enlarged and amended in several stages until 1756.

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Built around 1715 with materials salvaged from an earlier structure, the Dole-Little House was constructed for Richard Dole, a cattleman. The house was built on a two-room, central-chimney plan with a small kitchen shed at the rear. This shed has since been replaced with a larger lean-to. Decorative carpentry and finish include chamfered edges, molded sheathing (especially in the great hall and parlor), and possibly original stair balusters.

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Coffin House chronicles the evolution of domestic life in rural New England over three centuries. The 1678 structure, which contains the family's furnishings, began as a simple dwelling built in the post-medieval style. Tristam Coffin and his family lived, cooked and slept in two or possibly three rooms; their possessions were few. About 1700, the house was more than doubled in size to provide living space for a married son and his family. As the family grew, partitions were added and lean-tos built so that different generations could continue to live together under one roof. In 1785, two Coffin brothers legally divided the structure into two separate dwellings, each with its own kitchen and living spaces. With rooms from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Coffin House depicts the impact of an expanding economy and new concepts, such as the notion of privacy, on architecture and modes of living.

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Overlooking a prospect of farm and pleasure grounds, this gentleman's country seat was a powerful force in the lives of five generations of the Codman family. In the 1790s, John Codman carried out extensive improvements to the original 1740 Georgian house and surrounding grounds. Each generation of Codmans to live here left their mark, and the estate that was originally a country retreat gradually came to symbolize the family's distinguished past. The interiors, richly furnished with portraits, memorabilia, and art works collected in Europe, preserve the decorative schemes of every era, including those of noted interior designer Ogden Codman, Jr. The grounds feature a hidden Italianate garden, c. 1900, with perennial beds, statuary, and a reflecting pool filled with waterlilies, as well as an English cottage garden, c. 1930.

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