Center Hill Lane, Petersburg (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Petersburg.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 27, 1972. NRIS 72001514.
1 contributing building.
Centre Hill Museum or Centre Hill Mansion as its proper name, completed initial construction in 1823 and was built by Revolutionary War veteran Robert Bolling IV. The Bollings were a very prominent family for many generations, being granted a plot of land in present-day Petersburg by the then King of England. Centre Hill served as Union headquarters during the reconstruction period; therefore, a meeting between a Union general and President Lincoln took place inside the home in 1865. President Taft also spent time on the property. Its doors were opened as a museum in the 1950s.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682500