Moss Neck Manor
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Moss Neck Manor | |
 Property entrance | |
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| Location | VA 766, S side of Rappahannock R., Rappahannock Academy, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°12′30.528″N 77°19′32.772″W / 38.20848000°N 77.32577000°W |
| Area | 280 acres (110 ha) |
| Built | 1856 |
| Architectural style | Mid 19th Century Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 99000069[1] |
| VLR No. | 016-0018 |
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| Added to NRHP | January 27, 1999 |
| Designated VLR | December 10, 1998[2] |
Moss Neck Manor is a historic antebellum plantation house located at Rappahannock Academy, Caroline County, Virginia, United States.
James Parke Corbin (1808-1868) inherited the plantation, which did not have a significant house, from his father, Richard Corbin (1771-1819).[3] After his and his father's main plantation house, Laneville in King and Queen county, burned in 1843, Corbin began construction of the manor in the then-popular Greek Revival style. Enslaved labor probably both helped construct the building, as well as provided the income for the building project. In the 1850 census, Corbin owned 33 enslaved people in King and Queen County,[4] and about 100 in Caroline County.[5]
The house was completed in 1856, shortly after the death of his first wife, the former Jane Katherine Wellford. She had already borne three sons, all of whom would fight for the Confederacy: Richard Corbin (1833-1863), Spottswood Wellford Corbin (1835-1897), and James Parke Corbin Jr.(1847-1909). Their younger daughter Katherine (1839-1920) would marry CSA staff officer Sandie Pendleton during the conflict described below.
The two-story central section features long hyphens, and pedimented terminal wings. The colonnaded verandahs have Doric order columns, a two-level portico, and octagonal cupola. The house measures 225 feet long.[6] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]
