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Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia)

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Area
  
517 acres (209 ha)

NRHP Reference #
  
06000753

Built
  
1791 (1791)

Phone
  
+1 540-592-3508

Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia)

Location
  
1799 Blue Ridge Farm Rd., near Upperville, Virginia

Architect
  
Wood, Waddy Butler; Shipman, Ellen Biddle, et al.

Architectural style
  
Federal, Colonial Revival

Address
  
1724 Blue Ridge Farm Rd, Upperville, VA 20184, USA

Blue Ridge Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.

Overview

The property includes a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story Colonial Revival-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm’s horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed.

The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood. Californian Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a horse breeding operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903.

Purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property.

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

References

Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia) Wikipedia