Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation

Piney Grove
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	VA 615, Holdcroft, Virginia
Coordinates	37°22′24″N 76°58′42″W / 37.37333°N 76.97833°W / 37.37333; -76.97833
Area	5.2 acres (2.1 ha)
Built	c. 1800 (1800), c. 1820, 1853, c. 1905
Architectural style	Log building
NRHP reference No.	85003052[1]
VLR No.	018-0063
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 26, 1985
Designated VLR	June 18, 1985[2]

Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation is a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Holdcroft, Charles City County, Virginia. The scale and character of the collection of domestic architecture at this site recall the vernacular architectural traditions of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries along the James River.

Located mostly north of today's Virginia State Route 5, these frame structures of the common planters were in contrast to the elaborate brick residences of the wealthiest families who developed plantations along the waterfront of the James River. Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation is located on the high ridge of land to the north of the river, in an area of smaller plantations with more modest homes.

The original section was built about 1800 as a 20-by-22-foot (6.1 m × 6.7 m), one-story log corn crib. It was expanded to a 1+1⁄2-story log store about 1820. In 1853, two additions were built, and in the early 20th century, a two-story block was created which incorporated the two rooms of the 1853 addition. The house is a rare survival of log vernacular architecture in Tidewater Virginia and a unique survival of a log agricultural building that was later twice incorporated into a much larger frame structure.^[3]

It was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]