Adam Keeling House, Colonial house in Virginia Beach, United States.
The Adam Keeling House is a colonial-era residence in Virginia Beach, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and recognized as a Virginia Historic Landmark. The house features decorative glazed headers in the brickwork and a center hall floor plan, both typical of Tidewater colonial construction.
The house was built in 1735, making it one of the oldest surviving homes in Virginia Beach, constructed during the early decades of colonial settlement along the Virginia coast. It has remained standing through centuries of change in the surrounding landscape.
The family cemetery on the grounds holds graves of the Keeling family and other early settlers of this part of coastal Virginia. The carved names and dates on the stones connect visitors directly to the people who first farmed and lived on this land.
The house is privately owned, so it can only be seen from the street, and there is no public access to the interior. The family cemetery sits north of the junction of Adam Keeling Road and Lynn Cove Lane and can be viewed from the roadside.
The exact construction date was confirmed by tree-ring analysis carried out by the Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory, which examined the growth rings in the original timber beams. This allowed researchers to date the building with a precision that historical documents alone could not provide.
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