Woodburn (Charles City, Virginia)

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Woodburn
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register


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Location	NW of Charles on VA 618, Charles City, Virginia
Coordinates	37°21′20″N 77°06′39″W / 37.35556°N 77.11083°W / 37.35556; -77.11083
Area	60 acres (24 ha)
Built	c. 1815 (1815)
Architectural style	Palladian
NRHP reference No.	78003183^[1]
VLR No.	018-0052
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1978
Designated VLR	April 19, 1977^[2]

Woodburn, also known as Woodbourne, is a historic plantation house located near Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia. The house was built about 1815 by John Tyler, who later served as tenth President of the United States. The Palladian house is a three-part frame structure consisting of a tall, two-story, three-bay central section with a gable-end facade and flanking chimneys, and two, low one-story, one-bay wings. Also on the property are a contributing one-story frame office (c. 1830) and an original smokehouse. The Woodburn property was purchased by John Tyler in 1813 when he married Letitia Christian.^[3] He resided there until 1821, and sold the property to his brother Wat H. Tyler in 1831. During his residence at Woodburn, he served as Congressman.^[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ "The Enslaved Households of President John Tyler". WHHA (en-US). Retrieved 2024-05-15.
^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (April 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Woodburn" (PDF). and Accompanying photo

v t e John Tyler
10th President of the United States (1841–1845) 10th Vice President of the United States (1841) President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate (1836) U.S. Senator from Virginia (1827–1836) 23rd Governor of Virginia (1825–1827) U.S. Representative for VA–23 (1816–1821)
Life	Greenway Plantation Woodburn Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 Whig Party 1836 United States presidential election 1840 United States presidential election 1839 Whig National Convention William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Sherwood Forest Plantation Peace Conference of 1861 Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 Provisional Congress of the Confederate States Hollywood Cemetery
Presidency	Inauguration of John Tyler Webster–Ashburton Treaty Tariff of 1842 Treaty of Wanghia List of federal judges appointed by John Tyler Texas annexation Priscilla Cooper Tyler (acting first lady) USS Princeton
Public image	List of memorials to John Tyler Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Recarving Rushmore
Family	Letitia Christian Tyler (first wife) Julia Gardiner Tyler (second wife) Robert Tyler (son) Letitia Semple (daughter) David Gardiner Tyler (son) John Alexander Tyler (son) Lyon Gardiner Tyler (son) Harrison Ruffin Tyler (grandson) John Tyler Sr. (father)
Related	John Tyler and slavery The General (horse)
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