Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia)

Blue Ridge Farm
Blue Ridge Farmhouse
Location 1799 Blue Ridge Farm Rd., near Upperville, Virginia
Coordinates 38°57′49″N 77°52′42″W / 38.96361°N 77.87833°W / 38.96361; -77.87833Coordinates: 38°57′49″N 77°52′42″W / 38.96361°N 77.87833°W / 38.96361; -77.87833
Area 517 acres (209 ha)
Built 1791 (1791)
Architect Wood, Waddy Butler; Shipman, Ellen Biddle, et al.
Architectural style Federal, Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 06000753[1]
VLR # 030-0894
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 30, 2006
Designated VLR June 8, 2006[2]

Blue Ridge Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.

Overview

The property includes of a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story Colonial Revival-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm’s horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed.

The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood. Californian Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a horse breeding operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903.

Purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Kim Prothro Williams (April 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blue Ridge Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos


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