The Homeplace | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | June 16, 1999[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 056-5008 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | US 29, jct. with VA 603, Madison, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 38.4031°N -78.2222°W |
Built: | c., c. 1875 |
Builder: | Clore, James O.; Clore, James Cleveland |
Architecture: | I-house |
Added: | August 5, 1999 |
Refnum: | 99000959 |
The Homeplace is a historic home and farm complex located at Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The original house was built about 1830, and is a gable-roofed hall-and-parlor building with a rear shed addition, built of frame over a stone basement. It was extensively enlarged about 1875 by the addition of a two-story wing built on an I-house plan. Also on the property are the contributing barn, well house, sun pit (greenhouse), bunkhouse for farm workers, meathouse, and a building which oncehoused the furniture factory operated by the Clore family.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.