Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia)

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Blue Ridge Farm

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = June 8, 2006{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm#|archive-date=2013-09-21|url-status=dead}}

| designated_other1_number = 030-0894

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = BLUE RIDGE FARM, UPPERVILLE, FAUQUIER COUNTY.jpg

| caption = Blue Ridge Farmhouse

| location = 1799 Blue Ridge Farm Rd., near Upperville, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|38|57|49|N|77|52|42|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA Virginia Northern#USA Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1791}}

| architect = Wood, Waddy Butler; Shipman, Ellen Biddle, et al.

| architecture = Federal, Colonial Revival

| added = August 30, 2006

| area = {{convert|517|acre}}

| refnum = 06000753{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Blue Ridge Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.

Overview

The property includes a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story Colonial Revival-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm's horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed.

The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood. Californian Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a horse breeding operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903.

Purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fauquier/030-0894_BlueRidgeFarmm_NRfinal_2006.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blue Ridge Farm|author=Kim Prothro Williams|date=April 2006|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fauquier/030-0894_BlueRidge_Photographs.htm Accompanying four photos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813164011/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fauquier/030-0894_BlueRidge_Photographs.htm |date=2013-08-13 }}

Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia)

Overview

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