Locust Hill (Hurt, Virginia)
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Location | 7408 Wards Rd., Hurt, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°05′54″N 79°14′55″W / 37.09833°N 79.24861°WCoordinates: 37°05′54″N 79°14′55″W / 37.09833°N 79.24861°W |
Area | 100 acres (40 ha) |
Built | 1861 | , 1930
Architect | Enoch Johnson |
Architectural style | Late Victorian, Swiss Gothic |
NRHP reference No. | 02001449[1] |
VLR No. | 071-5153 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | November 27, 2002 |
Designated VLR | September 11, 2002[2] |
Locust Hill is a historic home and farm complex located near Hurt, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The house was built in two sections with the main section built in 1861, and expanded with a three-story rear ell in 1930. The original section is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, frame dwelling in the Swiss Gothic style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof that incorporates two central chimneys and four gable ends decorated in ornamental bargeboard. Also on the property are a number of contributing resources including a tavern, a servants' quarter, a kitchen, an icehouse, a chicken house, a smoke house, a dairy, a servants' quarter, a caretaker's house, a grist mill, a dam, a family cemetery, and the ruins of an 18th-century house.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Margaret Roberts (June 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Locust Hill" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Gothic Revival architecture in Virginia
- Houses completed in 1861
- Houses in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Pittsylvania County, Virginia
- 1861 establishments in Virginia
- Southern Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pittsylvania County, Virginia geography stubs