Built c. 1818 (1818) VLR # 007-0015 Opened 1818 Architectural style Jeffersonian architecture Added to NRHP 25 October 1973 | NRHP Reference # 73001995 Designated VLR September 18, 1973 Area 231 ha Function House | |
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Similar Blue Ridge Mountains, Woodrow Wilson President, Staunton National Cemetery, Frontier Culture Museum | ||
Folly is a historic plantation house located near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The house was built about 1818, and is a one-story, brick structure with a long, low service wing and deck-on-hip roof in the Jeffersonian style. It has an original rear ell fronted by a Tuscan order colonnade. The front facade features a tetrastyle pedimented portico with stuccoed Tuscan columns and a simple lunette in the pediment. A similar portico is on the north side and a third portico was replaced by a wing added in 1856. The house closely resembles Edgemont near Covesville, Virginia. Also on the property are contributing original brick serpentine walls, a spring house, smokehouse and icehouse.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.