Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia) Explained

Blue Ridge Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 8, 2006[1]
Designated Other1 Number:030-0894
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:1799 Blue Ridge Farm Rd., near Upperville, Virginia
Coordinates:38.9636°N -77.8783°W
Architect:Wood, Waddy Butler; Shipman, Ellen Biddle, et al.
Architecture:Federal, Colonial Revival
Added:August 30, 2006
Refnum:06000753

Blue Ridge Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.

Overview

The property includes a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story Colonial Revival-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm's horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed.

The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood. Californian Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a horse breeding operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903.

Purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm#. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blue Ridge Farm. Kim Prothro Williams. April 2006. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos