Estes Farm | |
Barns along Simmons Gap Road | |
Location | 6185 Estes Ln., near Dyke, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 38°12′21″N78°29′41″W / 38.20583°N 78.49472°W Coordinates: 38°12′21″N78°29′41″W / 38.20583°N 78.49472°W |
Area | 265 acres (107 ha) |
Built | c. 1840 | , c. 1840
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 06000409 [1] |
VLR No. | 002-0524 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | May 17, 2006 |
Designated VLR | March 8, 2006 [2] |
Estes Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Dyke, Albemarle County, Virginia. It includes a c. 1840 log dwelling and a c. 1880 wood framed main house, as well as numerous supporting outbuildings including a large barn (c. 1840), an icehouse/well house (c. 1880), a tenant house (c. 1880), the log dwelling (c. 1840), a small hay/tobacco barn (c. 1920), a garage (c. 1900), and three small sheds. Also on the property is a contributing truss bridge (c. 1915). The house is a two-story, three-bay frame I-house building with a hipped roof. A two-story half-hipped central rear ell was added in 1976. It is representative of a transitional Greek Revival / Italianate style. It features a one-story three-bay porch fronting the central entrance, and exterior-end brick chimneys. [3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [1]
Scanlon Farm is a late 19th-century loghouse and farm overlooking Three Churches Run east of the unincorporated community of Three Churches, West Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 1988.
Thunder Hill Farm, also known as the Daniel-Grantham House, is a historic home located near Inwood, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is a two-story, Federal style stone and log dwelling in two sections with a gable roof. The south section is three bays wide and built of stone in 1818. The north section was added about 1882 and is built of logs, sided with German siding. Also on the property is a wood frame barn with clapboard siding built in 1882.
Hockley Mill Farm, also known as Mt. Pleasant Mills and Frank Knauer Mill, is a historic home and grist mill located in Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The farm has three contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They are the miller's house, 1 1⁄2-story stone-and-frame grist mill (1805), stone-and-frame bank barn, and the head and tail races. The house is a 2 1⁄2-story, five-bay, banked fieldstone dwelling with a gable roof. The foundation in the western section was built about 1725 to support a log dwelling. It was expanded with the present eastern section in 1735, and the log section replaced about 1780. A two-story, two-bay annex was built in 1935–40, and expanded in 1965. A shed-roofed addition was built to the north in 1990.
Hills Farm, also known as Hunting Creek Plantation, is a historic home and farm located in Greenbush, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built in 1747. The building is a 1 1/2-story, five-bay, gable roofed, brick dwelling. A one-story, wood-framed and weatherboarded wing to the east gable end of the original house was added in 1856. The house was restored in 1942 using the conventions of the Colonial Revival style. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and dairy, a barn and three small sheds, and a caretaker's cottage (1940s).
Seven Oaks Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was formerly known as Clover Plains and owned by John Garrett, who assisted with building the University of Virginia and was a bursar with the university. The land is named after the original seven oak trees on the property named after the first seven presidents born in Virginia. Only one of the original seven trees still standing after six were destroyed in 1954 in the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel. The main house was built about 1847–1848, and is a two-story, five-bay, hipped-roof frame building with a three-bay north wing. The interior features Greek Revival style design details. It has a two-story, pedimented front portico in the Colonial Revival style addition. Sam Black's Tavern is a one-story, two-room, gable-roofed log house with a center chimney and shed-roofed porch. Black's Tavern has since been moved to the adjacent Mirador property circa 1989. It was originally owned by Samuel Black, a Presbyterian minister of the Sam Black Church in West Virginia. Blacksburg, Virginia, was named after the family. Other buildings on the farm include an ice house, smokehouse, dairy, greenhouse, barns, a carriage house, a garage and several residences for farm employees. The ice house on the land, typically framed in an octagonal shape, in fact only has six sides.
Westview, also known as the Elam Homestead and Terrell Place, is a historic plantation house and farm located in Charlotte County, Virginia; the nearest community is Brookneal, which is in Campbell County. It was built in 1832, and is a two-story, three bay, single pile, brick dwelling in the Federal style. It has two later frame additions. Also on the property are three contributing log slave cabins, a frame milk house, log smokehouse, log schoolhouse, log shed, two barns, a stable / hay barn, ice pit, a family cemetery, and a slave cemetery.
Bleak Hill is a historic plantation house and farm located close to the headwaters of the Pigg River near Callaway, Franklin County, Virginia. Replacing a house that burned in January 1830, it was built between 1856 and 1857 by Peter Saunders, Junior, who lived there until his death in 1905. Later the house, outbuildings, and adjoining land were sold to the Lee family. The main house is the two-story, three bay, double pile, asymmetrical brick dwelling in the Italianate style. It measures approximately 40 feet by 42 feet and has a projecting two-story ell. Also on the property are a contributing two rows of frame, brick, and log outbuildings built about 1820: a two-story brick law office, a brick summer kitchen, a frame single dwelling, and a log smokehouse. Also on the property are two contributing pole barns built about 1930.
Rochambeau Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Manakin-Sabot, Goochland County, Virginia. The main dwelling was built about 1855, and is an "L"-shaped full two-story frame structure set on a common bond brick foundation in the Greek Revival style. It has a low hip roof and three single-story colonnade porches.
Howard's Neck Plantation is a historic house and plantation complex located near the unincorporated community of Pemberton, in Goochland County, Virginia. It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, three-bay brick structure in the Federal style. The house is similar in style to the works of Robert Mills. It has a shallow deck-on-hip roof and a small, one-story academically proportioned tetrastyle Roman Doric order portico.
Brookside Farm and Mill is a historic grist mill and farm complex located at Independence, Grayson County, Virginia. The Brookside Mill was built in 1876, and is a three-story, three bay by three bay, heavy timber frame building measuring 30 feet by 35 feet. The principal dwelling was built in 1877, and is a two-story, three bay, frame building with a central passage plan. Other contributing buildings and structures include a brick spring house, brick smokehouse, log corn crib, frame hen house, miller's cabin, the miller's cottage or Graham House, a frame service station / garage (1918), and concrete dam (1914) and earthen mill race.
Rocklands is a historic home and farm complex located near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. The house was built about 1905, and underwent a major renovation under the direction of William Lawrence Bottomley in 1933–1935. It is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay, Georgian Revival style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. The front facade features a monumental Ionic order hexastyle portico. Also on the property are the contributing guest house ; a small service court designed by Bottomley and consisting of a garage, servant's house, woodshed, and tunnel; a 19th-century coach barn of wood-frame construction; the mid-19th century farm manager's house; Spencer Neale, Jr., Residence ; bank barn ; and a brick house (1822).
The Anderson–Doosing Farm is a historic home and farm located near Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built about 1883, and is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing meat house, log cabin, equipment shed / blacksmith shop, two chicken houses, barn, privy, corn crib, and milking parlor.
Mulberry Grove is a historic home located near Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1790, and later expanded in the 1820s to a two-story, three bay, brick and frame Federal style dwelling. It has a side gable roof and two chimneys at the northeast end and one brick chimney near the southwest end. A frame stair hall was added about 1828 and brick wings were added at each end about 1840. The property includes a contributing log meat house and a double-pen log barn. The house was built for William Houston, a relative of the Texas pioneer and Rockbridge County native, Sam Houston.
Mountain View Farm, also known as Pioneer Farms, is a historic home and farm complex located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1854, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling, with a 1 1/2-story gabled kitchen and servant's wing, and one-story front and back porches. It features a Greek Revival style interior and has a standing seam metal hipped roof. The property includes an additional 13 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures loosely grouped into a domestic complex and two agricultural complexes. They include a two-story, frame spring house / wash house, a frame meathouse, a one-room brick building that probably served as a secondary dwelling, a double-crib log barn, a large multi-use frame barn, a slatted corn crib with side and central wagon bays and a large granary.
Bowman–Zirkle Farm, also known as the Isaiah Bowman Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The farmhouse was built in 1879, and is a two-story, three bay, frame I-house dwelling with an integral wing. The remaining contributing resources are a 19th-century log-and-frame tenant house, a summer kitchen, frame meat house, a large bank barn ; a barn shed, a second bank barn, a frame granary, a wood-stave silo, and a large, two-story chicken house.
Hyde Park, also known as Old Field, Hyde Farmlands, Hyde Farmlands Academy, Hyde Farms, and Hyde Park Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia. The original section was built between 1762 and 1782, and is a three-story, three bay, brick vernacular Federal style central passage dwelling. It was enlarged between 1840 and 1860. Between 1906 and 1911, a two-story Greek Revival-inspired brick addition was added to the east gable and a three-story Colonial Revival brick addition to the northwest corner. The farm complex also includes the tenant house, kitchen/wash house, ten log chicken houses, dairy barn, six small outbuildings, and the Fowlkes family cemetery. Also on the property is a large, multi-component archaeological site as well as the ruins of brooder houses, additional farm outbuildings, the tenant farmer house site, the cattle barn ruin, the old mill complex site, and the new mill complex site. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the property provided the opportunity for agriculturally skilled Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to immigrate to America and expand the farm's productivity.
Barber Farm, also known as Luckland, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina. The Jacob Barber House was built about 1855, and is a two-story, single-pile, three-bay vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a one-story rear ell and a one-story shed roofed rear porch. Its builder James Graham also built the Robert Knox House and the Hall Family House. Other contributing resources are the cow barn, smokehouse, granary, double crib log barn, well house, log corn crib / barn, carriage house, school, Edward W. Barber House (1870s), Edward W. Barber Well House (1870s), North Carolina Midland Railroad Right-of-Way, and the agricultural landscape.
Knox Farm Historic District is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina. The Robert Knox House was built between 1854 and 1856, and is a two-story, single-pile, three-bay vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell, one-story rear kitchen ell. Its builder James Graham also built the Jacob Barber House and the Hall Family House. Other contributing resources are the log corn crib, reaper shed, power plan, chicken house, brooder house, log smokehouse, barn, main barn (1916), milking parlor (1948), spring house, tenant house (1920), and Knox Chapel Methodist Church (1870s).
Lake O'Woods, also known as the Edward and Rebecca Pitchford Davis House, is a historic plantation house located near Inez, Warren County, North Carolina. The main house was built by Albert Gamaliel Jones in 1852. It is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a shallow, overhanging hipped roof and entrance porch with fluted columns. Also on the property are the contributing earlier house or kitchen ; four hole outhouse; a log chicken house; an early smokehouse and a later one of logs; a mounted farm bell; a well; and a collection of barns and stable.
Burroughs–Foland Farm is a historic home and farm located at Livingston, Columbia County, New York. The main farmhouse was built in 1908, and is a 2 1/2-story, Mission Revival style, stuccoed hollow tile dwelling. It features a full-width, tripartite arched front porch, flanking side porches, and hipped roof of red barrel tile. Also on the property are the contributing carriage house (1908); original frame farmhouse ; barn, cow stable, and silo ; truck and tractor building ; stable and carriage house ; piggery ; engine house ; and small dwelling house.
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