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Whitethorn (Blacksburg, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1855 (1855)

NRHP Reference #
  
89001879

Opened
  
1855

Added to NRHP
  
13 November 1989

MPS
  
Montgomery County MPS

VLR #
  
150-5021

Area
  
2 ha

Whitethorn (Blacksburg, Virginia)

Location
  
VA 685, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the junction with US 460, Blacksburg, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Italian Villa

Similar
  
Virginia Tech, English Field, Lane Stadium

Whitethorn is a historic home located at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped, five bay by three bay, brick dwelling with a shallow hipped roof in the Italian Villa style. It has Greek Revival style exterior and interior decorative elements. It features a wide, elegant, one-story, five-bay front porch supported by square columns of the Tuscan order. Also on the property is a contributing two-story brick office building.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

References

Whitethorn (Blacksburg, Virginia) Wikipedia