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39°3′36″N 78°3′53″W / 39.06000°N 78.06472°W / 39.06000; -78.06472
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Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District
Slave quarters
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District is located in Northern Virginia
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District is located in Virginia
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District is located in the United States
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District
LocationUS 50/17 S side, 4 mi. W of the Shenandoah R., Boyce, Virginia
Coordinates 39°3′36″N 78°3′53″W / 39.06000°N 78.06472°W / 39.06000; -78.06472
Area712 acres (288 ha)
Builtc. 1825 (1825)
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Federal
NRHP reference  No. 92001580 [1]
VLR  No.021-0550
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 1992
Designated VLRSeptember 15, 1992 [2]

Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District is a national historic district located adjacent to The Tuleyries at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure. They include a large, two-story, brick slave's quarters built about 1825; a stone and brick stables that was later converted into a dwelling; a turn-of-the-20th-century farmhouse and its associated agricultural and domestic related outbuildings; a late-19th century vernacular hall-parlor-plan house; two historic dwelling sites; as well as orchards and fields of improved pasture. [3]

Graham F. Blandy bequeathed 700 acres of his approximately 900-acre estate to the University of Virginia, which accepted it after his death in 1926. The University began its program of agricultural biology at Blandy in 1927, and converted part of the landscape into an arboretum. Dr. Orland E. White planted began planting the Arboretum in 1929, and upon his retirement in 1955 it was named the Orland E. White Research Arboretum. [4] In 1986, the Virginia general assembly designated the property the State Arboretum of Virginia. [5]

The slaves' quarters, referred to as the Quarters, was converted into laboratories and student and faculty housing. In 1941, the Quarters building was greatly enlarged with the addition of three Colonial Revival wings. This addition created a U-shaped building with the original Quarters section as the east wing. A research greenhouse was built at the same time. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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  • Historic Quarters
    Historic Quarters
  • Historical Marker
    Historical Marker

References

  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. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  3. ^ a b Maral S. Kalbian and Edward Conner (April 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo
  4. ^ "State Arboretum of Virginia". American Conifer Society. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  5. ^ "State Arboretum Of Virginia, Orland E. White Arboretum | American Public Gardens Association". www.publicgardens.org. Retrieved November 5, 2021.

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