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Junius Marcellus Updyke Farm

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Built
  
c. 1912

VLR #
  
010-5027

Area
  
146 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
12000018

Designated VLR
  
December 15, 2011

Added to NRHP
  
8 February 2012

Junius Marcellus Updyke Farm

Location
  
4859 E. Bluegrass Trail, near Bland, Virginia

Junius Marcellus Updyke Farm is a historic home and farm located near Bland, Bland County, Virginia. The house was built about 1910, and is a two-story, three bay, single-pile, I-house, with a two-story rear ell to its rear. It also has a one-story wing and porch. It has a gable roof with pent roofs at the ends and a full-width front porch supported by Ionic order columns. Also on the property are a contributing two-story smokehouse (c. 1910), granary (c. 1910), chicken house (c. 1920), storage shed (c. 1910), barn (c. 1955), and family cemetery.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

Junius Marcellus Updyke Farm Wikipedia