Built c. 1860 (1860) VLR # 044-0010 Added to NRHP 30 May 2002 | NRHP Reference # 02000587 Area 36 ha | |
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Location 187 Spencer Penn Rd., Spencer, Virginia Built by Built for David Harrison Spencer by Unknown builder; Bowles, Stanley (1940's work); Taylor, Mr. (1940's Work) Architectural style Greek Revival, Italianate | ||
Grassdale Farm is a historic home located at Spencer, Henry County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, center-passage-plan frame dwelling with Greek Revival and Greek Revival style influences. Two-story ells have been added to the rear of the main section, creating an overall "U" form. Also on the property are a variety of contributing buildings and outbuildings including a kitchen, smokehouse, cook's house, log dwelling, and office / caretaker's house dated to the 19th century; and a garage, playhouse, poultry house, two barns, greenhouse, Mack Watkin's House, granary and corn crib, and Spencer Store and Post Office dated to the 1940s-1950s. Grassdale Farm was once owned by Thomas Jefferson Penn, who built Chinqua-Penn Plantation outside Reidsville, North Carolina, where the Penn tobacco-manufacturing interests were located.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.