Green Pastures (Middleburg, Virginia)

Green Pastures
Location 2337 Zulla Rd., near Middleburg, Virginia
Coordinates 38°56′20″N 77°47′32″W / 38.93889°N 77.79222°W / 38.93889; -77.79222Coordinates: 38°56′20″N 77°47′32″W / 38.93889°N 77.79222°W / 38.93889; -77.79222
Area 236.1 acres (95.5 ha)
Built 1931 (1931)-1932
Architect Stout, Penrose V.; Fuller, Arthur K., et al.
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 02000596[1]
VLR # 030-0742
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 29, 2002
Designated VLR March 13, 2002[2]

Green Pastures is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Middleburg, Fauquier County, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings built between 1931 and 1947. The include a Colonial Revival style manor house inspired by Mount Vernon, a smokehouse, stable, hostlers' quarters, farmer's cottage, garage and cow shed, chicken house and cow barn designed by New York architect Penrose V. Stout and built between 1931 and 1932; a stone sheep shed, a masonry workshop, a metal machine shed and log cabin built between 1935 and 1947. The frame manor house consist of a 2 12-story, seven-bay central section flanked by hyphens connected to two-story flanking wings.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (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. Cheryl H. Shepherd (October 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Green Pastures" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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