Built 1853 (1853)-1856 VLR # 070-0011 Opened 1856 Added to NRHP 4 February 1991 | NRHP Reference # 91000015 Designated VLR August 21, 1990 Area 2 ha | |
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Location VA 629 S of jct. with US 58, near Spencer, Virginia Architectural style Italianate, Italian Villa | ||
Aurora, also known as the Pink House, Boxwood, and the Penn Homestead, is a historic home located at Penn's Store near Spencer, Patrick County, Virginia. It was built between 1853 and 1856, and is a two-story, three-bay, hipped-roof frame house in the Italian Villa style. It features one-story porches on the east and west facades, round-arched windows, clustered chimneys, and low pitched roofs. Also on the property is a contributing small one-story frame building once used as an office. It was built by Thomas Jefferson Penn (1810-1888), whose son, Frank Reid Penn founded the company F.R & G. Penn Co. that was eventually acquired by tobacco magnate James Duke to form the American Tobacco Company.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.