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Longwood (Earlysville, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
96001074

Designated VLR
  
June 19, 1996

Added to NRHP
  
18 October 1996

VLR #
  
002-0380

Area
  
74 ha

Longwood (Earlysville, Virginia)

Location
  
North side of VA 665 at the junction with VA 663 and VA 664, near Earlysville, Virginia

Built
  
c. 1790 (1790), 1810-1820, c. 1940

Architectural styles
  
Colonial Revival architecture, Federal architecture

Longwood is a historic home and farm located near Earlysville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built about 1790, with additions between 1810 and 1820, and about 1940. It is a two-story, five-bay frame building with a two-story store/post office addition and a small one-story, two bay, gable-roofed frame wing. It has Federal and Colonial Revival design elements. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn (c. 1890), a frame schoolhouse for African American students [c. 1900), a late-19th-century stone well, and the 19th-century cemetery of the Michie family.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

References

Longwood (Earlysville, Virginia) Wikipedia