Sunnyside (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Sunnyside, also known as the Duke House, is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. The original section was built about 1800, as a 1 1/2-story, two room log dwelling. It was expanded and remodeled in 1858, as a Gothic Revival style dwelling after Washington Irving's Gothic Revival home, also called Sunnyside. The house features scroll-sawn bargeboards, arched windows and doors, and a fieldstone chimney with stepped weatherings and capped corbelled stacks topped with two octagonal chimney pots. The plantation mansion was built by Francis Edward Duke who was Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1812 to 1816 and the Military Governor of Harpers Ferry from 1831 to 1836. His son, Richard Thomas Walker Duke who served as a congressman from Virginia resided on the plantation until his death.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
