jennifer: i am jennifer hurst-wender, the director of the museum. today we are bacon's castle. bacon's castle is on the national register of historic sites. my position allows me the position of managing five historic places across the state. preservation virginia was formed in 1889. we are going to celebrate our 125th anniversary. where the oldest statewide historic preservation organization in the nation. preservation virginia acquired bacon cassel in 1973. for the next 10 years worked to preserve this structure. they did some of their largest preservation initiatives during this time pieroderiod, including replacing the entire summer beam and making many repairs to the original house. it was opened to the public in 1984. in 2014 celebrating its 30th year being open to the public. and in 2015 we'll be going into our 350th anniversary. we are the oldest brick dwelling in north america. the house is a very rare architectural style. it is called high -- architecture. and there are only three examples of this style of architecture in the entire western hemisphere. the other two a

jennifer: my name is jennifer hurst-wender, the director of the museum. today we are bacon's castle. in surrey county, virginia. bacon's castle is on the national register of historic sites. we are the oldest brick dwelling in north america. the house boasts a very rare architectural style. it's called high jacobean architecture and there are only three examples of this style of architecture in the entire west hemisphere. the other two are in barbados. this is the only one in the united states. and this room would have been directly above where visitors would have initially entered into bacon's castle in 1665 until the addition was built and the entrance was moved. but it is from this room that you can really get a fantastic view of why we specifically refer to this house as being in the jacobian style of architecture and that would be if you look out the window you can see these flemish gables and you can see the triple stack chimney, on a diagonal on either side of the house. on the opposite side we have a chimney on the second floor and then it also fi

. >> my name is jennifer hurst-wender. i am the director of museum operations. this is bacon's castle in surry virginia. it is one of preservation virginia's historic sites. we are the oldest built dwelling in north america. the house boasts a rare architectural style. there are only three examples of this style of architecture in the western hemisphere. the other two are in barbados. this is the only one in the united states. we are in the tower. this room would have been directly above where you would have entered into bacon's castle in 1665 until the 1864 aedddition was built and it was moved. it is a fantastic view of why this house is in this style of architecture. you can see these flemish cables. -- gables. you can see the triple stack chimney. they are on a diagonal. they are on each side of the house. on this side of the house, we have one on the garrett, one on the first floor, and one on the second floor. on the opposite night, we have it on the second floor, the first floor, and also the kitchens fireplace. -- kitchen's fireplace. this is where you a