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Grassdale Farm

Coordinates: 36°36′58″N 80°00′37″W / 36.61611°N 80.01028°W / 36.61611; -80.01028
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Grassdale Farm
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Grassdale Farm is located in Virginia
Grassdale Farm
Grassdale Farm is located in the United States
Grassdale Farm
Location187 Spencer Penn Rd., Spencer, Virginia
Coordinates36°36′58″N 80°00′37″W / 36.61611°N 80.01028°W / 36.61611; -80.01028
Area90 acres (36 ha)
Builtc. 1860 (1860)
Built byStanley Bowles, Mr. Taylor
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.02000587[1]
VLR No.044-0010
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 30, 2002
Designated VLRMarch 13, 2002[2]

Grassdale Farm is a historic home located at Spencer, Henry County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, center-passage-plan frame dwelling with Greek Revival and Greek Revival style influences. Two-story ells have been added to the rear of the main section, creating an overall "U" form. Also on the property are a variety of contributing buildings and outbuildings including a kitchen, smokehouse, cook's house, log dwelling, and office / caretaker's house dated to the 19th century; and a garage, playhouse, poultry house, two barns, greenhouse, Mack Watkin's House, granary and corn crib, and Spencer Store and Post Office dated to the 1940s-1950s. Grassdale Farm was once owned by Thomas Jefferson Penn, who built Chinqua-Penn Plantation outside Reidsville, North Carolina, where the Penn tobacco-manufacturing interests were located.[3]

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (December 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grassdale Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo