Bowman–Zirkle Farm Explained

Bowman–Zirkle Farm
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 18, 2009[1]
Designated Other1 Number:085-0438
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.7989°N -78.6258°W
Built:, 1879
Architecture:Late Victorian, I house
Added:August 21, 2009
Refnum:09000642

Bowman–Zirkle Farm, also known as the Isaiah Bowman Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The farmhouse was built in 1879, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house dwelling with an integral wing. The remaining contributing resources are a 19th-century log-and-frame tenant house, a summer kitchen (c. 1823), frame meat house (c. 1880), a large bank barn (the Bowman barn, c. 1870); a barn shed, a second bank barn (the Painter barn, c. 1880), a frame granary (c. 1880), a wood-stave silo (c. 1900), and a large, two-story chicken house (c. 1920).[2]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-03-12. 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: Bowman–Zirkle Farm. James C. Massey and Shirley Maxwell. March 2009. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying 13 photos