Longwood | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | June 19, 1996[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 002-0380 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 38.1819°N -78.4983°W |
Built: | c., 1810-1820, c. 1940 |
Architecture: | Federal, Colonial Revival |
Added: | October 18, 1996 |
Refnum: | 96001074 |
Longwood is a historic home and farm located near Earlysville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built about 1790, with additions between 1810 and 1820, and about 1940. It is a two-story, five-bay frame building with a two-story store/post office addition and a small one-story, two-bay, gable-roofed frame wing. It has Federal and Colonial Revival design elements. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn (c. 1890), a frame schoolhouse for African American students [c. 1900), a late-19th-century stone well, and the 19th-century cemetery of the Michie family.<ref name=VAnom>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Albemarle/002-0380%20-%20Longwood%20-%201996%20-%20Final%20Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Longwood |author=Geoffrey B. Henry |date=February 1996}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Albemarle/Longwood_photo.htm ''Accompanying two photos'']
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.