Zehmer Farm

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Zehmer Farm
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Location9818 Jack Zehmer Rd., McKenney, Virginia
Coordinates 36°59′04″N77°43′44″W / 36.98444°N 77.72889°W / 36.98444; -77.72889
Area309 acres (125 ha)
Built1905 (1905)
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No. 09000793 [1]
VLR No.257-5008
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 30, 2009
Designated VLRJune 18, 2009 [2]

Zehmer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a one-story, frame L-shaped dwelling with a broad hipped roof and wings added to both sides. Also on the property are a collection of outbuildings and farm structures – including animal shelters, corn crib, flue-cured tobacco barns, dairy barn and milk houses, and the sites of tenant houses, a butcher house, fire-cured tobacco barns and a sawmill. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  3. John G. Zehmer, Jr. (March 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Zehmer Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos