Lansdowne (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

Lansdowne, also known as Retreat Farm and Backus House, is a historic home located near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The property abuts the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The original section was built about 1755, and enlarged in the early-19th century and in 1950. It is a 1 1/2-story, three-bay, side gable-roofed, double-pile, wood-framed dwelling. It features tall exterior chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing board-and-batten, side-gabled frame bank barn (1920s), a cinderblock spring house and cinderblock pumphouse with an early pump (c. 1950), the remnants of a mid-19th century historic formal landscape including terracing, and an historic road trace.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
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