Locust Grove (Lynchburg, Virginia)
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Locust Grove is a historic home located on a 32 acres (12.9 ha) tract. at Lynchburg, Virginia
. It is a five-bay, double-pile, central-passage-plan. -story, timberframe, four end chimney Federal
-style house. It was begun about 1810 for Edmund Cobbs, Jr. It was enlarged significantly between 1825 and 1830 to its present central-passage
plan. The house was extensively renovated in 1932, at which time a garage, barn, guest house, and tenant house, were erected.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1992.
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 75,568 as of 2010. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or "The Hill City." Lynchburg was the only major city in...
. It is a five-bay, double-pile, central-passage-plan. -story, timberframe, four end chimney Federal
Federal architecture
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...
-style house. It was begun about 1810 for Edmund Cobbs, Jr. It was enlarged significantly between 1825 and 1830 to its present central-passage
Central-passage house
The central-passage house, also known variously as center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States.It evolved primarily in colonial...
plan. The house was extensively renovated in 1932, at which time a garage, barn, guest house, and tenant house, were erected.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1992.