Built 1881 (1881), 1931-1933 VLR # 030-0320 Area 61 ha Added to NRHP 30 May 2002 | NRHP Reference # 02000585 Designated VLR December 5, 2001 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | |
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Location 8457 Oaks Rd., near Warrenton, Virginia Built by Fleming, W.H. Irwin; Hanback, W.J. | ||
The Oaks, also known as Innes Hill, is a historic home and farm located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was built between 1931 and 1933, and consists of a 1 to 2 1/2-story, five bay, Classical Revival style main block with a four-part plan. The attached sections are a one-story pantry and kitchen wing and garage attached by a four bay arcade. The main block features a prominent two-story, four-bay, pedimented portico has four extraordinary fluted Tower of the Winds columns. Also on the property are the contributing Italianate style brick stable (c. 1847); a brick smokehouse; and an agent's cottage, tile barn, corn house, spring house and summerhouse built between 1928 and 1930; garage with servants' quarters, greenhouse, log cabin, potato house, pump house, chicken house and field shed built between 1931 and 1945; the mansion landscape and scene of the 1881 duel; and a windmill. It was the site in September 1881, of the one of the last four duels in Virginia, prior to enactment of anti-duel legislation in 1882.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.