Grassdale Farm | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | March 13, 2002[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 044-0010 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 36.6161°N -80.0103°W |
Built: | c. |
Builder: | Stanley Bowles, Mr. Taylor |
Architecture: | Greek Revival, Italianate |
Added: | May 30, 2002 |
Refnum: | 02000587 |
Grassdale Farm is a historic home located at Spencer, Henry County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, center-passage-plan frame dwelling with Greek Revival and Greek Revival style influences. Two-story ells have been added to the rear of the main section, creating an overall "U" form. Also on the property are a variety of contributing buildings and outbuildings including a kitchen, smokehouse, cook's house, log dwelling, and office / caretaker's house dated to the 19th century; and a garage, playhouse, poultry house, two barns, greenhouse, Mack Watkin's House, granary and corn crib, and Spencer Store and Post Office dated to the 1940s-1950s. Grassdale Farm was once owned by Thomas Jefferson Penn, who built Chinqua-Penn Plantation outside Reidsville, North Carolina, where the Penn tobacco-manufacturing interests were located.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.