Green Pastures is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Middleburg, Fauquier County, Virginia. Recognized as having been owned by industrialist and financier Robert Earll McConnell, 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+1⁄2-story, seven-bay central section flanked by hyphens connected to two-story flanking wings.[3]
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| Location | 2337 Zulla Rd., near Middleburg, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°56′20″N 77°47′32″W / 38.93889°N 77.79222°W |
| Area | 236.1 acres (95.5 ha) |
| Built | 1931-1932 |
| Architect | Stout, Penrose V.; Fuller, Arthur K., et al. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000596[1] |
| VLR No. | 030-0742 |
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| Added to NRHP | May 29, 2002 |
| Designated VLR | March 13, 2002[2] |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Cheryl H. Shepherd (October 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Green Pastures" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo