Scaleby (Boyce, Virginia)

Scaleby
Location Co. Rd. 723 S of jct. with US 340, near Boyce, Virginia
Coordinates 39°5′34″N 78°2′45″W / 39.09278°N 78.04583°W / 39.09278; -78.04583Coordinates: 39°5′34″N 78°2′45″W / 39.09278°N 78.04583°W / 39.09278; -78.04583
Area 200.5 acres (81.1 ha)
Built 1909 (1909)-1911
Built by Sill, Howard; Sill, Buckler, Fenhagen
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 90002000[1]
VLR # 021-0086
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 28, 1990
Designated VLR April 17, 1990[2]

Scaleby is a historic estate home and farm located near Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. The main house and associated outbuildings were built between February 1909 and December 1911. The main house is a 2 1/2-story, nine bay, brick dwelling in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a main block measuring 100 feet by 70 feet, connected to a dependency by a 36 feet long hyphen. The front facade features a five bay front porch supported by colossal Ionic order columns. Also on the property are the contributing Gardener's Cottage, the Farm Manager's House, the stable, the garage, a barn, a double-crib barn, the tenant house, a smokehouse, a water storage facility, the pumphouse, a two-story tower-like water catchment facility, a garden pergola, an ice-well with a gazebo, a stone terrace, and a concrete-lined pond.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[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 5 June 2013.
  3. Stuart Mawbry (January 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Scaleby" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo


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