This frame and clapboard house built as a plantation house by a descendant of David Clarke, who purchased the property in 1662, is an example of an upper-middle-class dwelling of c. 1700. The exposed interior frame and the Jacobean stair railing are features of the seventeenth century; the symmetrical facade, originally five bays, and central-passage plan belong
Belle Air
c. 1700, c. 1800. 11800 John Tyler Hwy. (VA 5). Open by appointment