page_title: Wharton Place
hierarchical_section_title: Wharton Place
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking over the fields toward the farmhouse at Wharton Place, located on Pettit Road east of Metompkin Road, east of Mappsville, in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Built in 1798, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: Wharton Place is a historic home located at Mappsville, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built in 1798, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Federal style. It has a one-story brick kitchen wing. It has a deck-on-hip roof and projecting interior chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing frame smokehouse. The house was built by John Wharton, a prosperous maritime merchant and native of Accomack County.
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
context_section_description: Wharton Place is a historic home located at Mappsville, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built in 1798, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Federal style. It has a one-story brick kitchen wing. It has a deck-on-hip roof and projecting interior chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing frame smokehouse. The house was built by John Wharton (1762-1811), a prosperous maritime merchant and native of Accomack County.
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
caption: Fields at the property; the house is slightly visible at right
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