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.
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.