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Jones Farm (Kenbridge, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
96001052

Designated VLR
  
June 19, 1996

Area
  
145 ha

VLR #
  
055-0182

Opened
  
1846

Added to NRHP
  
27 September 1996

Jones Farm (Kenbridge, Virginia)

Location
  
VA 609, approximately .75 mi. N of jct. with VA 613, near Kenbridge, Virginia

Built
  
c. 1835 (1835), c. 1846

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

The Jones Farm is a historic tobacco plantation house and farm located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1846, and is a two-story, three bay, frame I-house with a rear ell dated to about 1835. It is sheathed in original weatherboard and has a side gable roof. It features a front porch with Greek Revival style characteristics. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, ice house, granary, storage barn, tobacco storage facility, dairy stable, corncrib, two chicken coops, five tobacco barns, three tenant farmhouses, and the sites of a well house and tool shed.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

References

Jones Farm (Kenbridge, Virginia) Wikipedia


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