Hobson's Choice (Alberta, Virginia)

{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Hobson's Choice

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = November 20, 1979{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|accessdate=2013-05-12}}

| designated_other1_number = 012-0013

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Hobson's Choice, Alberta.jpg

| caption = Roadside view

| location= E of Alberta on VA 606, near Alberta, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|36|52|19|N|77|49|0|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = c. {{Start date|1794}}

| architecture = Georgian

| added = March 18, 1980

| area = {{convert|0|acre}}

| refnum = 80004174{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Hobson's Choice is an historic home located near Alberta, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in the Palladian style about 1794 by Dr. Richard Feild for his bride Ann Meade, on land the groom bought from his father-in-law. The

Edinburgh educated physician also had considerable knowledge of botany and astronomy, edited The Intelligencer and Petersburg Commercial Advertiser, and three times served as a Presidential elector. Although Feild died in 1829, the plantation stayed in the family until 1870.

The one-story brick structure has a central pavilion with flanking wings connected by hyphens in a late-Georgian style. A stone addition was built about 1860, a brick room added in 1947, and a frame enclosed porch about 1953.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Brunswick/012-0013_Hobson%27s_Choice_1980_Final_Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hobson's Choice |author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff |date=November 1979}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Brunswick/HobsonsChoice_photo.htm Accompanying photo]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.