{"nrhp_refnum":"06000408","name":"Myrtle Hall Farm","other_names":["Meadow Farm","VDHR File Number 053-1059"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19305 Ridgeside Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bluemont","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.08279186450005,"lon":-77.83643251095319,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 40-acre working horse farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bluemont, Loudoun County, Virginia, centered on a brick plantation house built about 1813 by Mordecai Throckmorton, with outbuildings, a family cemetery and fields.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the largest and most architecturally sophisticated dwellings in Loudoun County, combining Federal, Georgian and Greek Revival features (Criterion C). It also argues the farm was among the county's largest slave-labor plantations and has been in continuous agricultural use for nearly 200 years (Criterion A).","narrative":"Myrtle Hall Farm is a 40-acre horse farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Bluemont, Loudoun County. Its centerpiece is a brick house built around 1813 by Mordecai Throckmorton, who bought an 800-acre tract that year and ran one of the largest slave-labor plantations in the county until his death in 1838. The two-story house is laid in five-course American bond and blends Federal and Georgian details, including carved reeded mantels, a central-passage stair and flared window reveals. A library addition from the 1850s adds Greek Revival features. Surviving outbuildings include a stone springhouse, a stone-lined well, a wood shed, a family cemetery, and a guest house, tenant house and farm office updated in 1949. The farm's open fields and pastures keep its agricultural character. It was recognized for its architecture and for its long farming history, which runs from 1813 through the mid-twentieth-century ownership of Howard Bucknell.","period_of_significance":"circa 1813 - 1956","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal (with Georgian influences and a Greek Revival library addition)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a working horse farm with eight horses boarded; the springhouse roof is missing and the swimming pool is abandoned.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.549582-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/6815/41681585/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000408.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000408/1d77462507-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000408/1d77462507-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MyrtleHallFarm_LoudounCounty.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MyrtleHallFarm_LoudounCounty.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681585","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Hall_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712936"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/myrtle-hall-farm-06000408/"}