Jct. of Co. Rt. 3 and US 29, Clifford, Virginia. County/parish: Amherst.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 03, 1997. NRIS 96001453.
7 contributing buildings.Also known as:
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. The property has been home to Rebec Vineyards since 1987.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679517