Sanders Farm is a historic home and farm located at Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The Brick House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, Queen Anne style brick farmhouse. It features ornamental gables and porches. Also on the property are the contributing cold frame with a stepped front parapet (c. 1900), a vaulted stone spring house, a one-story brick servants quarters (c. 1880), a cinder block store with an upstairs apartment and an accompanying privy (1950s), a frame vehicle repair shop (c. 1920s), a stone reservoir (1880s) two corn crib, a frame gambrel-roofed barn, a one-story tenant house (c. 1920), stone bridge abutments, and the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine (late 1880s), a complex of rock formations and tram line beds.[3]
Sanders Farm | |
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| Location | 3908 Fort Chiswell Rd., Max Meadows, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°52′39″N 80°52′07″W / 36.87750°N 80.86861°W |
| Area | 170 acres (69 ha) |
| Built | 1880 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 03000454[1] |
| VLR No. | 098-0192 |
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| Added to NRHP | May 22, 2003 |
| Designated VLR | March 19, 2003[2] |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[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.
- ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sanders Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos