Built 1845 (1845) VLR # 023-5230 Opened 1845 Added to NRHP 17 September 2008 | NRHP Reference # 08000911 Designated VLR June 19, 2008 Area 98 ha | |
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Location 7091 Monumental Mills Rd., Rixeyville, Virginia Architectural style Greek Revival architecture |
Clifton is a historic home and farm located near Rixeyville, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story frame dwelling, built in the Greek Revival style, with wings constructed about 1850 and about 1910. Also on the property is a "street" of contributing outbuildings dated to the 19th and early 20th centuries. They include an antebellum two-story frame kitchen with a wide stone chimney; a 19th-century frame bank barn; a stone ash house, an icehouse, a chicken house, and a small frame barn, all built around 1918; a frame chicken house constructed about 1950; and a large center-aisle frame corncrib and spring house built about 1930.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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