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Pleasant Grove (Halifax, Virginia)

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Architectural style
  
Gothic

VLR #
  
041-5033

Area
  
120 ha

Added to NRHP
  
5 August 1999

NRHP Reference #
  
99000966

Designated VLR
  
June 16, 1999

Year built
  
1888

Pleasant Grove (Halifax, Virginia)

Location
  
Deer Run Rd., near Halifax, Virginia

Pleasant Grove is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia. The district includes 17 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures on three farm complexes. They are the Main House Complex, Owen Tenant House Complex, and Ferrell Tenant House Complex. The main house was built in 1888-1890, and is a two-story Victorian style dwelling. Associated with it are the contributing smokehouse (c. 1940), pump house (c. 1940), watering trough (c. 1940), cow barn (c. 1940), granary (c. 1890), two corncribs (c. 1930), three tobacco barns (c. 1890), and a hog pen (c. 1930). The Owen Tenant House was built about 1900 and associated with it are a workshop (c. 1940), pumphouse (c. 1940), hog pen (c. 1940), and chicken house (c. 1940). The Ferrell Tenant House was built about 1940, and associated with it is a log corncrib (c. 1930). Also on the property are the ruins of the Blackstock Tenant House and a second tenant house ruin.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Pleasant Grove (Halifax, Virginia) Wikipedia