Mountain View Farm (Lexington, Virginia)
Mountain View Farm | |
![]() Distant view from Interstate 64 | |
Location | 199 Fredericksburg Rd., Lexington, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°51′51″N 79°28′59″W / 37.86417°N 79.48306°W |
Area | 133 acres (54 ha) |
Built | 1854 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 99001723[1] |
VLR No. | 081-0171 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | January 27, 2000 |
Designated VLR | September 15, 1999[2] |
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.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (May 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mountain View Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Greek Revival houses in Virginia
- Houses completed in 1854
- Houses in Rockbridge County, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Rockbridge County, Virginia
- 1854 establishments in Virginia
- Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Rockbridge County, Virginia geography stubs