Elk Hill, Historic plantation house in Goochland County, Virginia.
Elk Hill is a brick residence with three bays and a columned portico in Greek Revival style located in Goochland County. The main house sits on a 35-acre property and is accompanied by separate outbuildings for workers' quarters, a tack house, and a spring house.
The house was built between 1835 and 1839 by tobacco merchant Randolph Harrison Jr., reflecting the wealth of that trading era. Decades earlier, during the Revolutionary War, the plantation served briefly as a military encampment for British forces.
The Greek Revival style shows how wealthy tobacco planters chose to build their homes and what mattered to them in design. The ordered columns and proportions displayed their status and refined taste in architecture.
The site sits roughly 1.3 kilometers from the James River and is surrounded by wooded areas and open land. Access is best from nearby State Route 608, which runs close to the property.
Since 1970, the property has not been used for private residence but rather as a residential program supporting young men. The Elk Hill Farm project demonstrates how a historic property found an entirely new purpose serving a social mission.
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