It has overhanging eves and louvered ventilators to keep the milk cool. In antebellum times, diary houses were a measure of affluence.

Photographed 28 Feb 2010 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Built in 1769 by William Harwood. It was a Confederate Hospital during the 1862 Peninsular Campaign.

Photographed 28 Feb 2010 and Contributed by George Seitz.

An Italianate plantation dwelling completed by 1859 for Richard Decatur Lee. Generals Macgruder and Johnston used it as headquarters during the Peninsula Campaign in the Civil War.

Photographed 28 Feb 2010 and Contributed by George Seitz