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Belle Grove (Delaplane, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1812 (1812)

VLR #
  
030-0008

Opened
  
1812

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
06000756

Designated VLR
  
June 8, 2006

Area
  
37 ha

Added to NRHP
  
30 August 2006

Belle Grove (Delaplane, Virginia)

Location
  
1402 Winchester Rd., near Delaplane, Virginia

Belle Grove is a historic home and farm located near Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia. The manor house was built about 1812, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, brick and stuccoed stone house in the Federal style. It has a 1 1/2-story, three bay summer kitchen, built about 1850, and connected to the main house by a hyphen. Also on the property are the contributing meat house (c. 1812); the barn (c. 1830); a chicken house (c. 1900); a cattle shed (c. 1940); a loafing shed (c. 1940); machine shed (c. 1940); a four-foot square, stone foundation (c. 1812); stone spring house ruin (c. 1812); the Edmonds-Settle-Chappelear Cemetery (1826-1940); an eight-by-twelve-foot stone foundation (c. 1900); a tenant house ruin (c. 1900); a stone well at the manor house (c. 1812); and a loading chute (c. 1940).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

References

Belle Grove (Delaplane, Virginia) Wikipedia