Herbert House

Herbert House is a historic plantation home located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1753 on the point of land where the Hampton River meets Sunset Creek near Hampton Roads, and is a two-story, U-shaped, brick and frame Georgian style dwelling.

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Type: Historic house
Description: historic house in Hampton, Virginia, United States
Address: Hampton, 23669

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hampton University Museum and Virginia Air and Space Science Center.

Hampton University Museum

Museum

Founded in 1868 on the campus of Hampton University, the Hampton University Museum is the oldest African-American museum in the United States and the oldest museum in Virginia. Hampton University Museum is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Herbert House.

Virginia Air and Space Science Center

Museum

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The Virginia Air and Space Science Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base. Virginia Air and Space Science Center is situated 2,900 feet north of Herbert House.

Victoria Boulevard Historic District

Park

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Historic Little England is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings in a streetcar suburb originally laid out in 1888.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kecoughtan and Phoebus.

Kecoughtan

Neighborhood

In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia. In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County. It was annexed into the City of Newport News in 1927.

Phoebus

Suburb

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Phoebus is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of Hampton, Virginia, on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison Phoebus, who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News.

Fort Monroe

Suburb

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Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It is currently managed by partnership between the Fort Monroe Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the city of Hampton as the Fort Monroe National Monument. Fort Monroe is situated 2 miles southeast of Herbert House.

Herbert House

Categories: house, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.01622° or 37° 0′ 58″ north

Longitude

-76.34305° or 76° 20′ 35″ west

Open location code

87952M84+FQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 388476338

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=house

Wikidata ID

Q15223694

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French: “Herbert House”

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