{"nrhp_refnum":"06000753","name":"Blue Ridge Farm","other_names":["030-0894"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1799 Blue Ridge Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upperville","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.964371106000044,"lon":-77.8774642847786,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 517-acre thoroughbred horse-breeding farm near Upperville in Fauquier County, Virginia, with a circa 1791 stone farmhouse (Fountain Hill House), a 1935 Colonial Revival stone main house, tenant houses, stables and other farm buildings.","why_significant":"The farm is recognized for architecture, landscape architecture and agriculture. It includes a Federal-era stone house and a 1935 Colonial Revival residence designed by Waddy B. Wood with gardens by Ellen Biddle Shipman. It also preserves an early twentieth-century complex of stables and outbuildings tied to Virginia thoroughbred breeding.","narrative":"Blue Ridge Farm is a 517-acre thoroughbred horse-breeding farm in the Piedmont foothills near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia, with views toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its oldest building is Fountain Hill House, a rubble stone dwelling built around 1791 by Joshua Fletcher and later enlarged in 1974-75. The main residence, a stone Colonial Revival house completed in 1935, was designed by Washington architect Waddy B. Wood for Admiral Cary T. Grayson, built by William Conquest, and set within a walled courtyard garden by landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman. Around 1903 the farm gained broodmare stables, stud barns, training and implement stables, a hay shed and tenant houses that supported its breeding business. Grayson bred and raced thoroughbreds, and his family continued the operation after his death in 1938. The property was listed for its architecture, landscape architecture and agricultural history, with a period of significance running from about 1791 to 1956.","period_of_significance":"circa 1791-1956","architect_builder":"Waddy Butler Wood, Architect; Ellen Biddle Shipman, Landscape Architect; William Conquest, Builder","architectural_style":"Federal (Fountain Hill House); Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a horse farm and residence; historic functions continue as single dwelling and agricultural facilities.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.528601-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/6806/41680651/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000753.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000753/97203d8cef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000753/97203d8cef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BLUE_RIDGE_FARM,_UPPERVILLE,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:BLUE_RIDGE_FARM,_UPPERVILLE,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680651","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Farm_(Upperville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712045"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/blue-ridge-farm-06000753/"}