McClung Farm Historic District explained

McClung Farm Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:August 21, 1990[1]
Designated Other1 Number:045-0011
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.2697°N -79.5419°W
Builder:Smiley, James
Architecture:Federal, Vernacular Federal
Added:January 25, 1991
Refnum:90002195

McClung Farm Historic District is a historic home and national historic district located at McDowell, Highland County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and three contributing structures. The main house was built in 1844, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with a single-pile, central-passage plan and an original two-story rear addition in a vernacular Federal style. It has a three-bay-wide front porch. The contributing buildings and structures besides the house include: a large barn, a small barn, a cattle ramp, an outhouse, a corncrib, a smokehouse, a shed, and the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church and its outhouse. The contributing sites are a wood shed foundation, the ruins of the McClung Mill, and the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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: McClung Farm Historic District . Charles M. Wilke and Lorraine G. White . August 2005 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources . and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map