Home Farm (Leesburg, Virginia) Explained

Home Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:September 6, 2006[1]
Designated Other1 Number:053-5388
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:40332 Mount Gilead, near Leesburg, Virginia
Coordinates:39.0769°N -77.6081°W
Built:c., c. 1810, c. 1830, c. 1930
Architecture:Colonial, Federal
Added:August 10, 2007
Refnum:07000828

Home Farm is a historic home located near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original log section of the house was built about 1757, with a stone addition built about 1810, a frame addition built about 1830, and a frame kitchen addition built about 1930. It is an L-shaped, two-story, single-pile vernacular house clad in wood siding, random rubble fieldstone, and brick veneer laid. The interior exhibits stylistic influences of the Federal style. Also on the property are a contributing early-20th century henhouse, the stone foundation of a spring house, and a dry-laid fieldstone wall.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

In 2019, Home Farm 1760 was established at "Home Farm" specializing in organic locally sourced produce, botanicals, and products.

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: Home Farm . Kathryn A. Miller. March 2007 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos