Poinsett House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built in the mid-18th century as a tenant house. The original section is a two-story, two-bay, one-room plan brick structure measuring 20 feet by 18 feet. Attached to it are two log wings added in the early 19th century. The addition of the one-room, two-story log wing immediately to the west of the core effectively converted the house into a hall-parlor-type, four-bay dwelling.
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, an icehouse/well house, a tenant house, the log dwelling, a small hay/tobacco barn, a garage, and three small sheds. Also on the property is a contributing truss bridge. 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.
Green Falls, also known as Johnston's Tavern, Turner's Store, Wright's Corner (Fork), and Dolly Wright's Corner, is a historic home located at Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia. It is believed to have been built about 1710 and dating to the Colonial period. The frame dwelling consists of a two-story, three bay, single pile, central block flanked by one-story wings. It is considered by some historians to be the earliest surviving 18th century frame dwelling in Caroline County. The building housed a tavern in the 18th century, a store in the mid-19th century, and a post office from 1831 to 1859. It features massive brick exterior end chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing 18th century meat house, late-19th century carriage house, and early-20th century barn.
The Grove is a historic home located near Hanover, Caroline County, Virginia. The original main house was built about 1787, and expanded to its present size about 1800. The main section is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, frame dwelling with a central hall plan. It has a gable roof and rests on a low brick foundation. Additions were built in the 19th and 20th centuries. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse, water tower, tobacco barn, family cemetery, and site of an icehouse.
Four Locust Farm, also known as Pettus Dairy Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located near Keysville, Charlotte County, Virginia. The property includes a vernacular farm house dwelling, built around 1859, and a row of 20th-century farm buildings. The house is a two-story, three-bay-wide, frame dwelling that is covered by a low-pitched, hipped roof of standing-seam metal, and clad with weatherboards. Farm buildings include frame and masonry dairy/hay barns, silos, a milk house, workshop, equipment sheds, cattle pens, and tenant houses. The farm produced tobacco from 1919 until 1925; beginning in 1925, the farm turned to dairy production with a 100-head Holstein-Friesian herd. In 1962, the farm ended its dairy operations and turned to beef cattle production. The farm is now owned and operated by Pettus's grandson, Zach Tucker.
Loretta, also known as Edmonium, is a historic home located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was originally constructed about 1800 as a two-story. single-pile dwelling. In 1907-1908, it was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style. It is a 2 1/2-story, "L"-shaped, three-bay, brick house with a hipped roof built over a raised basement. In addition to the main house the property includes a smokehouse, and a well, both of which date to the early 19th century; and two barns, a corncrib, and two tenant houses, which all date to the early 20th century.
Brooks–Brown House, also known as the Brown-Law House, Law Home, and Halfway House, is a historic home located near Dickinson, Franklin County, Virginia. The first section was built about 1830, with a two-story addition built about 1850. Renovations about 1870, unified the two sections as a two-story, frame dwelling with a slate gable roof. At the same time, an Italianate style two-story porch was added and the interior was remodeled in the Greek Revival style. A rear kitchen and bathroom wing was added as part of a renovation in 1987-1988. It measures approximately 52 feet by 38 feet and sits on a brick foundation. Also on the property are a contributing detached log kitchen and dining room, a cemetery, and the site of a 19th-century barn. The house served as a stagecoach stop and inn during the mid-19th century and the property had a tobacco factory from about 1870 until 1885.
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.
Sunnyside Farm is a historic home and farm located near Hamilton, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built about 1815, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Federal style dwelling. There are several frame additions built from c. 1855–1860 up through the 20th century. Also on the property are the contributing brick barn with diamond-patterned ventilation holes, two-story springhouse, a wide loafing shed, a large corncrib, and two-car garage.
Cleremont Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built in two stages between about 1820 and 1835, and added onto subsequently in the 1870s. 1940s. and 1980s. It consists of a stone portion, a log portion, and a stone kitchen wing. It has a five bay, two-story, gable-roofed center section in the Federal style. A one-bay, one-story Colonial Revival-style pedimented entrance portico was built in the early 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing original 1 1/2-story, stuccoed stone dwelling (1761); a stone kitchen from the late 19th or early 20th century; a stuccoed frame tenant house built about 1940; a stone carriage mount; and a series of five stone walls.
Bloomington is a historic home located at Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia. The dwelling evolved into its present form from an original two-room, split-log dwelling dating to about 1790. The main block was built about 1832, and is a two-story, three-bay structure with steeply-pitched gable roof constructed over a raised brick basement. A one-story, gable-roofed addition was attached to the north wall of the main block about 1900. The house is a rare example of 18th-to-early-19th-century English frame construction which found expression in early Southern Colonial style. Also on the property are a contributing tobacco barn, horse barn, corn crib, and tool shed.
Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823 to 1830.
Bowyer–Trollinger Farm is a historic home and farm located at Childress, Montgomery County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built in four sections beginning in about 1825 and ending in about 1910. It started as a three-bay, two-story, apparently rectangular, single-pen log dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing farm office, mid-19th-century washhouse, spring house, barn, and corn crib, and an early 20th-century apple house/carbide gas lighting outbuilding.
Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the Federal style, a two-story brick dining room wing which dates from the early 20th century, and a mid-20th-century brick kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing stone garage, a 19th-century frame smokehouse with attached barn, an early-20th-century frame barn, a vacant early-20th-century tenant house, a stone tower, an early-20th-century frame tenant house, an abandoned storage house, as well as the stone foundations of three dwellings of undetermined date. The land was once owned by William Strother, maternal grandfather of Zachary Taylor, and it has often been claimed that the future president was born on the property.
Paxton is a historic home located near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. It was built about 1819, and is a two-story, three bay, Federal style brick I-house dwelling. It has a 1 1/2-story side wing. Also on the property are the contributing brick smokehouse, two small early-19th century one-room-plan frame dwellings, a 19th-century brick and frame icehouse, a late-19th century frame barn, and a family cemetery.
Sunnyside, also known as Sunnyside House, Sunnyside Farm, The Sycamores, and Telford, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1790, and is a three-story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. A rear wing was added about 1805, parlor addition in the 1840s, the east end addition in the 1860s, projecting gable windows in the 1880s-1890s, and the north and south porches in the 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing cottage, dairy, machine shed, granary, garage, calving barn, and shed.
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.
Hartwood Manor, also known as Old Foote Place, is a historic home located at Hartwood, Stafford County, Virginia. It was built in 1848, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay Gothic Revival style brick dwelling. It has a rear ell added in 1967. It features a steeply-pitched, cross-gable roof; one-story, polygonal bay windows; pointed and square-arched drip moldings; modified lancet-arch windows; and deep eaves with exposed rafter ends. The property includes the contributing frame barn, a concrete block milk house, a frame chicken house, and a frame workshop, all dated to the early-20th century. A contributing hand-dug well dates to the mid-19th century.
Rose Hill is a historic tobacco plantation house and national historic district located near Grassy Creek, Granville County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1834, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Greek Revival style red brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and a Colonial Revival style front porch added in the late-19th or early-20th century. Also on the property are the contributing garage, two frame corn cribs, four log tobacco barns, a log striphouse, a frame packhouse, and a tenant house.
Dr. Franklin Hart Farm, also known as Hidden Path, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Drake, Nash County, North Carolina. It includes a collection of well-preserved mid-19th to early-20th century dwellings and farm outbuildings. The main house was built about 1845, and is a two-story, three bay, single pile I-house with Federal / Greek Revival style design elements. The front facade features a two-tier portico carried by massive, unusual turned and banded columns. Also on the property are the contributing detached kitchen building, smokehouse, seven tobacco barns, corn crib, mule barn, packhouse, and seven tenant houses. The Hart family owned and farmed the land from about 1770 until 1979.
