Spring Hill (Ivy, Virginia) Explained

Spring Hill
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:August 16, 1983[1]
Designated Other1 Number:002-0140
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:VA 637 and VA 786,
Ivy, Virginia, U.S.
Coordinates:38.0481°N -78.5675°W
Built:c., c. 1785
Added:November 21, 1983
Refnum:83004232

Spring Hill is a historic home located at Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia, U.S.. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Architecture

The main house dates to about 1785, and is a two-story, brick dwelling expanded in the 1870s and 1930s. The oldest building on the property is the brick field slave quarters, built about 1765, and once served as the main house. Also on the property are a brick dairy and kitchen. The house is representative of the evolution and integration of academic and vernacular architectural styles covering over two centuries of Albemarle County settlement.[2]

History

The Spring Hill property was part of a tract of land owned in 1735 by Charles Hudson, and sold two years later to Michael Woods (1737–1748). Woods lived further west at the foot of Woods' Gap (now Jarman Gap), the site may have been lived by his son-in-law Andrew Wallace, when it was sold in 1748 with by Woods.

Spring Hill was also the childhood home of noted architect Waddy Butler Wood (1869–1944), and his sister, visual artist Virginia Hargraves Wood (1872–1941).[3]

External links

5 measured drawing at Historic American Buildings Survey

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12.
  2. Web site: Thomsen Jr. . Richard P. . March 1983 . National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Spring Hill . https://web.archive.org/web/20210701002409/https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/002-0140_Spring_Hill_1983_Final_Nomination.pdf . July 1, 2021. and accompanying photo
  3. News: 1941-02-25 . Mrs. C. F. Goddard . 2024-03-19 . . 20 . Newspaper.com.