The Oaks | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | December 5, 2001[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 030-0320 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 8457 Oaks Rd., near Warrenton, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 38.6844°N -77.8478°W |
Built: | 1931–1933 |
Builder: | Fleming, W.H. Irwin; Hanback, W.J. |
Architecture: | Classical Revival |
Added: | May 30, 2002 |
Refnum: | 02000585 |
The Oaks, also known as Innes Hill, is a historic home and farm located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was built between 1931 and 1933, and consists of a 1 to -story, five-bay, Classical Revival style main block with a four-part plan. The attached sections are a one-story pantry and kitchen wing and garage attached by a four-bay arcade. The main block features a prominent two-story, four-bay, pedimented portico has four extraordinary fluted Tower of the Winds columns. Also on the property are the contributing Italianate style brick stable (c. 1847); a brick smokehouse; and an agent's cottage, tile barn, corn house, spring house and summerhouse built between 1928 and 1930; garage with servants' quarters, greenhouse, log cabin, potato house, pump house, chicken house and field shed built between 1931 and 1945; the mansion landscape and scene of the 1881 duel; and a windmill. In September 1881, it was the site of one of the last four duels in Virginia, prior to enactment of anti-duel legislation in 1882.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.