VA 700 W of jct. with VA 615, Orange, Virginia. County/parish: Orange.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 28, 1992. NRIS 91002016.
7 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the Federal style, a two-story brick dining room wing which dates from the early 20th century, and a mid-20th-century brick kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing stone garage, a 19th-century frame smokehouse with attached barn, an early-20th-century frame barn, a vacant early-20th-century tenant house, a stone tower, an early-20th-century frame tenant house, an abandoned storage house, as well as the stone foundations of three dwellings of undetermined date. The land was once owned by William Strother, maternal grandfather of Zachary Taylor, and it has often been claimed that the future president was born on the property.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682342