Grassdale Farm Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grassdale Farm. J. Daniel Pezzoni. December 2001. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo