Sharp's Oakland

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

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

{{Infobox NRHP

| name =Sharp's Oakland

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = June 13, 2001{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 042-0461

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Sharp's Oakland entrance.jpg

| caption = Property entrance

| location= 12308 Verdon Rd., Doswell, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|37|53|56|N|77|30|49|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| architect =

| architecture = Second Empire

| added = January 24, 2002

| area = {{convert|10|acre}}

| refnum = 01001514{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Sharp's Oakland is a historic home located at Doswell, Hanover County, Virginia. It was built about 1890, and is a three-story, I-house frame dwelling in the Second Empire style. It features a high mansard roof still covered with patterned wooden shingles and a simple porch with Eastlake posts. Also on the property is a contributing slave quarter with a massive chimney.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Hanover/042-0461_Sharps_Oakland_2002_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sharp's Oakland|author=Theresa Stevenson and J. G. Zehmer| date=August 2000|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Hanover/SharpsOakland_photo.htm Accompanying photo]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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