Hare Forest Farm Explained

Hare Forest Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:April 17, 1991[1]
Designated Other1 Number:068-0124
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:VA 700 W of jct. with VA 615, near Orange, Virginia
Coordinates:38.2867°N -78.0794°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Colonial Revival, Federal
Added:January 28, 1992
Refnum:91002016

Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the Federal style, a two-story brick dining room wing which dates from the early 20th century, and a mid-20th-century brick kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing stone garage, a 19th-century frame smokehouse with attached barn, an early-20th-century frame barn, a vacant early-20th-century tenant house, a stone tower, an early-20th-century frame tenant house, an abandoned storage house, as well as the stone foundations of three dwellings of undetermined date. The land was once owned by William Strother, maternal grandfather of Zachary Taylor, and it has often been claimed that the future president was born on the property.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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: Hare Forest Farm . Geoffrey Henry. March 1991. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo