Rice's Hotel

Rice's Hotel

Rice's Hotel in May, 2010
Location Jct. of Co. Rts. 1001 and 1002, Heathsville, Virginia
Coordinates 37°55′0″N 76°28′24″W / 37.91667°N 76.47333°W / 37.91667; -76.47333Coordinates: 37°55′0″N 76°28′24″W / 37.91667°N 76.47333°W / 37.91667; -76.47333
Area 1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built c. 1795 (1795)
Architectural style Greek Revival, Federal
NRHP Reference # 92001389[1]
VLR # 066-0009
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 15, 1992
Designated VLR April 22, 1992, December 8, 1993[2]

Rice's Hotel, also known as Hughlett's Tavern and Shirley Hotel, is a historic inn and tavern located at Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. It is a quintessential courthouse tavern built in stages between about 1795 and the mid-19th century. It is a two-story, frame building with a 12-bay front and two-tier wooden piazza and Federal style interior. It is perhaps the largest traditional tavern in any Virginia town east of Fredericksburg and north of Gloucester Court House. The building closed in the late 1970s, and was subsequently donated to the Northumberland County Historical Society.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1] It is located in the Heathsville Historic District.

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Jeff O'Dell (December 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Heathsville Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

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