Locust Hill

7408 Ward's Rd., Hurt, Virginia. County/parish: Pittsylvania.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 27, 2002. NRIS 02001449.

11 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • 071-5153

From Wikipedia:

Locust Hill (Hurt, Virginia)

Locust Hill is a historic home and farm complex located near Hurt, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. The house was built in two sections with the main section built in 1861, and expanded with a three-story rear ell in 1930. The original section is a 2+12-story, three-bay, frame dwelling in the Swiss Gothic style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof that incorporates two central chimneys and four gable ends decorated in ornamental bargeboard. Also on the property are a number of contributing resources including a tavern, a servants' quarter, a kitchen, an icehouse, a chicken house, a smoke house, a dairy, a servants' quarter, a caretaker's house, a grist mill, a dam, a family cemetery, and the ruins of an 18th-century house.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682558

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