Kerr Place, Onancock

Name: Kerr Place
Address: Onancock, United States

#2 among attractions in Onancock

Top attraction, Museum, History museum

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Ker Place, also known as Kerr Place, is a historic home located at Onancock, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built in 1799, and is a two-story, five-bay rectangular Federal-style dwelling with a central projecting pedimented pavilion on both the front and rear elevations. It has a cross-gable roof and a two-story wing which originally was a 1+1⁄2-story kitchen connected to the house by a hyphen. In 1960, the house and two acres of land were acquired by, and made the headquarters of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society, which operates it as an early 19th-century historic house museum. ()

Built: 1799 (225 years ago)Coordinates: 37°42'46"N, 75°44'50"W

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Onancock United States

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Kerr Place – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cokesbury Church, Bank Building, St. James Church, Debtors' Prison.

~1580 ftW
Church, Greek Revival architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Cokesbury Church, Onancock
8 min walk • Cokesbury United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located at 13 Market Street in Onancock, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built in 1854, as a one-story, Greek Revival-style temple-front frame church. It was enlarged with a four-story, Gothic Revival entrance / bell tower with spire in 1886 and remodeled in 1892–1894.
4.2 miE
Park
Bank Building, Accomac
108 min walk • Bank Building, also known as Old Mercantile Building and Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce, is a historical commercial building located at Accomac, Virginia, Accomack County, Virginia.
4.1 miE
Church, Greek Revival architecture
St. James Church, Accomac
105 min walk • St. James Church is a historic Episcopal Church on Drummondtown Road near Back Street in Accomac, Virginia, United States. Originally established as a chapel of ease for Accomack Parish in the seventeenth century, the present St. James Church was erected in 1838 as the town then known as Drummondtown grew as the county seat.
4.4 miE
Museum, Georgian architecture
Debtors' Prison, Accomac
112 min walk • The Debtors' Prison is a historic debtors' prison in Accomac, Virginia. Constructed in 1783 as a house for the Accomack County jailer, it is the oldest public structure in the county.
4.5 miE
37°43'12"N • 75°39'57"W
Eastern Shore Public Library-Virginia, Accomac
114 min walk • Library
2 miSE
Locality
Onley
52 min walk • Onley is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The population was 516 at the 2010 census.

Kerr Place, Onancock

Facts and practical information

Kerr Place – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Cokesbury Church, Onancock

Bank Building, Accomac

St. James Church, Accomac

Debtors' Prison, Accomac

Eastern Shore Public Library-Virginia, Accomac

Onley