Area 500 acres (200 ha) Architectural style I House VLR # 081-0084 | Built 1792 (1792) NRHP Reference # 75002035 | |
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Location SW of Lexington off VA 251, near Lexington, Virginia | ||
Thorn Hill is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1792, and is a two-story, five bay, brick I-house dwelling. It has a side gable roof, interior end chimneys with corbelled caps, and a two-story, one-bay wing. The front facade features a colossal tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns. The property includes the contributing log smokehouse, frame kitchen, frame servants house and loom house, and barns and farm outbuildings. Thorn Hill was the home of Col. John Bowyer, a central figure in Rockbridge County's formative years.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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