Rock Hill Farm (Bluemont, Virginia)

Rock Hill Farm
Location 20775 Airmont Rd., Bluemont, Virginia
Coordinates 39°02′55″N 77°49′52″W / 39.04861°N 77.83111°W / 39.04861; -77.83111Coordinates: 39°02′55″N 77°49′52″W / 39.04861°N 77.83111°W / 39.04861; -77.83111
Area 68.8 acres (27.8 ha)
Built 1797 (1797)
Architectural style Federal
NRHP Reference # 09000664[1]
VLR # 053-1057
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 27, 2009
Designated VLR June 18, 2009[2]

Rock Hill Farm is a historic home and farm located near Bluemont, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built about 1797, and has undergone at least four additions and renovations about 1873, 1902, 1947, and 1990. It is two-story, stuccoed stone, Quaker plan, Federal style dwelling with a gable roof. Also on the property are the contributing two-story, wood frame bank barn (c. 1797); one-story, pyramidal-roofed, stucco-finished smokehouse (c. 1797); a two-story, gable-roofed, stucco and frame garage (c. 1797); one story, gable-roofed, wood-frame corncrib (c. 1873); one-story, gable-roofed, wood-frame office/dairy (c. 1873); a fieldstone run-in shed (c. 1873); a one-story, gable roofed,wood-frame stable (c. 1950); the remains of a formal boxwood garden (c. 1950); several ca. 19th-century, dry-laid, fieldstone fences (contributing); and a cemetery (c. 1820).[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Gardiner Hallock (January 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rock Hill Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos


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