Mountain_View_Farm_(Clifford,_Virginia)

Mountain View Farm (Clifford, Virginia)

Mountain View Farm (Clifford, Virginia)

Historic house in Virginia, United States

Mountain View Farm, also known as Spencer Plantation and Mountain View Farm at Rebec Vineyards, is a historic home and farm located near Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia. The property includes an 18th-century mansion, built about 1777, a 19th-century cottage and five other supporting buildings. The main house is a standard timber frame, two-story, three-bay, I-house with a rear ell addition. It is sheathed in weatherboard with end chimneys. It was moved to its present site in 1831. The cottage is a one-room building with a lean-to shed addition. It was originally used as a doctor's office by Dr. Paul Carrington Cabell, and probably dates to the 1830s or 40s. Also on the property are the contributing well house, a playhouse (originally a chicken coop), a smokehouse, an ice house, carriage house, and a chicken coop.[3] The property has been home to Rebec Vineyards since 1987.

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. [3]
    Paul Hardin Kapp (July 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mountain View Farm" (PDF). and Accompanying photo


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