Sanders Farm Explained

Sanders Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:March 19, 2003[1]
Designated Other1 Number:098-0192
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:3908 Fort Chiswell Rd., Max Meadows, Virginia
Coordinates:36.8775°N -80.8686°W
Architecture:Queen Anne
Added:May 22, 2003
Refnum:03000454

Sanders Farm is a historic home and farm located at Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The Brick House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, Queen Anne style brick farmhouse. It features ornamental gables and porches. Also on the property are the contributing cold frame with a stepped front parapet (c. 1900), a vaulted stone spring house, a one-story brick servants quarters (c. 1880), a cinder block store with an upstairs apartment and an accompanying privy (1950s), a frame vehicle repair shop (c. 1920s), a stone reservoir (1880s) two corn crib, a frame gambrel-roofed barn, a one-story tenant house (c. 1920), stone bridge abutments, and the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine (late 1880s), a complex of rock formations and tram line beds.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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: Sanders Farm . J. Daniel Pezzoni. January 2003. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos