The Oaks (Warrenton, Virginia)

The Oaks
Location 8457 Oaks Rd., near Warrenton, Virginia
Coordinates 38°41′04″N 77°50′52″W / 38.68444°N 77.84778°W / 38.68444; -77.84778Coordinates: 38°41′04″N 77°50′52″W / 38.68444°N 77.84778°W / 38.68444; -77.84778
Area 151.4 acres (61.3 ha)
Built 1881 (1881), 1931-1933
Built by Fleming, W.H. Irwin; Hanback, W.J.
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 02000585[1]
VLR # 030-0320
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 30, 2002
Designated VLR December 5, 2001[2]

The Oaks, also known as Innes Hill, is a historic home and farm located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was built between 1931 and 1933, and consists of a 1 to 2 1/2-story, five bay, Classical Revival style main block with a four-part plan. The attached sections are a one-story pantry and kitchen wing and garage attached by a four bay arcade. The main block features a prominent two-story, four-bay, pedimented portico has four extraordinary fluted Tower of the Winds columns. Also on the property are the contributing Italianate style brick stable (c. 1847); a brick smokehouse; and an agent's cottage, tile barn, corn house, spring house and summerhouse built between 1928 and 1930; garage with servants' quarters, greenhouse, log cabin, potato house, pump house, chicken house and field shed built between 1931 and 1945; the mansion landscape and scene of the 1881 duel; and a windmill. It was the site in September 1881, of the one of the last four duels in Virginia, prior to enactment of anti-duel legislation in 1882.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (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. ↑ Cheryl H. Shepherd (August 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: The Oaks" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photo


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