Longwood (Earlysville, Virginia)

Longwood
Location North side of VA 665 at the junction with VA 663 and VA 664, near Earlysville, Virginia
Coordinates 38°10′55″N 78°29′54″W / 38.18194°N 78.49833°W / 38.18194; -78.49833Coordinates: 38°10′55″N 78°29′54″W / 38.18194°N 78.49833°W / 38.18194; -78.49833
Area 183 acres (74 ha)
Built c. 1790 (1790), 1810-1820, c. 1940
Architectural style Federal, Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 96001074[1]
VLR # 002-0380
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 18, 1996
Designated VLR June 19, 1996[2]

Longwood is a historic home and farm located near Earlysville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built about 1790, with additions between 1810 and 1820, and about 1940. It is a two-story, five-bay frame building with a two-story store/post office addition and a small one-story, two bay, gable-roofed frame wing. It has Federal and Colonial Revival design elements. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn (c. 1890), a frame schoolhouse for African American students [c. 1900), a late-19th-century stone well, and the 19th-century cemetery of the Michie family.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[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 2013-05-12.
  3. Geoffrey B. Henry (February 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Longwood" (PDF). and Accompanying two photos


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