Western View | |
Location | VA 658, near Fork Union, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°44′06″N78°21′22″W / 37.73500°N 78.35611°W |
Area | 40 acres (16 ha) |
Built | c. 1790 | , 1824
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 02000320 [1] |
VLR No. | 032-0114 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 1, 2002 |
Designated VLR | April 1, 2002 [2] |
Western View is a historic home located near Fork Union, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The original frame section was built about 1790, and expanded with a brick addition in 1824. The original section is a 1+1⁄2-story, two-bay, rectangular frame structure with a slate covered gable roof. The brick addition is a one-over-one wing with Greek Revival attributes. Also on the property are the contributing site of the outdoor kitchen with extant chimney, and the Henley/Johnson family cemetery. [3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]
Woodburn, also known as Mundy House, is a historic home and farm complex located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The original section of the house, built about 1821, consists of a two-story, brick hall and parlor plan Federal style dwelling. It has one-story frame additions to the rear and a skillfully attached 1+1⁄2-story frame wing built in 1983. Also on the property is the Mundy family cemetery.
Home Tract, also known as Woodville, is a historic home located at Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia. The main house consists of a 2½-story, hall-parlor-plan frame dwelling with a two-story brick addition. A frame rear ell was added to the brick section about 1920. The interiors feature late Georgian and Greek Revival-style detailing. Also on the property is "The Cottage," one-story frame building with a stucco exterior, a metal-sheathed gable roof, and a Victorian front porch; a meathouse, and wellhouse.
High Meadows, also known as Peter White House, is a historic home located near Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia.
Hallsborough Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The original center section was built about 1790, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, double pen frame structure on a brick foundation. It was expanded by 1832, with the addition of the 1+1⁄2-story western section and two-story, double pen eastern section. It served travelers on the old Buckingham Road throughout much of the 19th century.
Homespun, also known as the Bell House, is a historic home located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. It is a vernacular, 2+1⁄2-story log, frame, stone and brick structure dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The earliest section was built in the 1790s, and is a three-bay wooden structure consisting of two log pens with a frame connector, or dogtrot, and covered with weatherboards. A two-story, two-bay, stone and brick addition was built about 1820. Also on the property is a contributing stone smokehouse.
Springdale is a historic home located at Crozier, Goochland County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1800. It is a two-story, three-bay, Federal period brick farmhouse with a frame addition. It is one of the few documented one-over-one-over-one houses in Goochland County.
Powell's Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located at Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia. The earliest section was built about 1808, with additions made by 1815 and 1820. It is a two-story, "H"-shaped brick and frame building. The original section is a two-story frame block with a gable roof and two low one-story wings with shed roofs. It is connected to the later two-story, five-bay brick section by a two-story hyphen added in 1958.
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.
Home Farm is a historic home located near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original log section of the house was built about 1757, with a stone addition built about 1810, a frame addition built about 1830, and a frame kitchen addition built about 1930. It is an "L"-shaped, two-story, single-pile vernacular house clad in wood siding, random rubble fieldstone, and brick veneer laid. The interior exhibits stylistic influences of the Federal style. Also on the property are a contributing early-20th century henhouse, the stone foundation of a spring house, and a dry-laid fieldstone wall.
Vaucluse is a historic plantation house located near Bridgetown, Northampton County, Virginia. It is a complex, two-story, ell-shaped brick and frame structure with a gable roof. Attached to the house is a 1+1⁄2-story quarter kitchen with brick ends. The brickended section of the house was built about 1784, with the addition to the house added in 1829. The annex connecting the house with the old kitchen was probably added in 1889. It was the home of Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844) who died in the USS Princeton disaster of 1844. His brother U.S. Navy Commander George P. Upshur (1799–1852), owned nearby Caserta from 1836 to 1847.
Oakridge is an historic home located near Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia. The main house is an early 19th-century frame structure consisting of a two-story, three-bay western section and a 1+1⁄2-story, one-bay east wing. It sits on a brick foundation and has a gable roof with modillion cornice. The interior features a handsome stair in the Chinese Chippendale taste.
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.
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.
Balthis House, also known as E.C. Balthis Blacksmith Shop Property and Balthis' Old Stand, is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1787, and is a two-story, five-bay, timber-frame vernacular Federal style dwelling. The original section is three bay and the house was expanded to its present size in the mid-19th century, at the same time as the addition of the two-story brick rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen dependency and playhouse / gazebo.
Rose Hill is a historic home located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1830, and is a two-story, a central-passage, single-pile plan frame dwelling with vernacular design elements derived from the Federal style. A two-story, brick rear ell with vernacular Greek Revival design elements was added in 1845. The front facade features a one-story, one-bay, hip roofed, Greek-Revival-style porch with paired Doric order wooden columns. Also on the property are the contributing two-story frame cottage, probably built originally as a kitchen/slave quarters, and two frame sheds clad in novelty siding.
Stonefield is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built about 1860, as a simple, vernacular two-story, one-over-one-room frame house on a high brick basement. A two-story Queen Anne style "facade", two rooms in width and one room deep, effectively masking the original rambling vernacular structure behind. It was added between 1880 and 1884. This section has a hipped roof with a large gable that overhangs a semi-octagonal bay-projection.
The Rowe House is a historic home located at Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was built in 1828, and is a two-story, four-bay, double-pile, side-passage-plan Federal style brick dwelling. It has an English basement, molded brick cornice, deep gable roof, and two-story front porch. Attached to the house is a one-story, brick, two-room addition, also with a raised basement, and a one-story, late 19th century frame wing. The interior features Greek Revival-style pattern mouldings. Also on the property is a garden storage building built in about 1950, that was designed to resemble a 19th-century smokehouse.
Lexington and Covington Turnpike Toll House is a historic toll house located at Lexington, Virginia. The original section was built about 1834, as a two-room brick structure. A board-and-batten frame was added between 1865 and 1867. Two additional rooms were added to the original structure in the 1870s, forming a "U"-shape. In 1887, a Victorian style front porch was added to the original brick structure. The house was sheathed in weatherboard in 1904, and an addition filling in the "U" was added. The house was rehabilitated between 1997 and 2004. Also on the property are the contributing ruins of a spring house. The building housed a toll house into the 1850s, then became a dwelling.
The Hermitage, also known as Devereaux House, is a historic home located at Virginia Beach, Virginia. The original section was built about 1700, with two later additions. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, four-bay, Colonial era frame dwelling. The second portion was constructed by about 1820, doubling the size of the dwelling, and the final portion was added in 1940. Also on the property are three outbuildings, as well as a large subterranean brick cistern, now part of the basement to the house.
Springdale is a historic plantation house located near Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia. The original section of the house may date to about 1750. Originally the house was a frame Georgian style two-story, side-passage gambrel roof dwelling with a brick cellar. A one-story shed addition was added in the late-18th or early-19th century. This section of the house was renovated between about 1774 and 1824. The house was expanded by 1840, with a 2+1⁄2-story, Federal style south wing and 1+1⁄2-story hyphen connecting the two wings. Also on the property is a contributing smokehouse and archaeological site.