{"nrhp_refnum":"07000803","name":"Oakley Farm","other_names":["VDHR File No. 008-0040"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11865 Sam Snead Highway (US 220)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warm Springs","county":"Bath County","state":"VA","lat":38.04041462850006,"lon":-79.79108371991995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oakley Farm is an approximately sixty-acre farm on US Highway 220 at Warm Springs, Bath County, Virginia, centered on a two-story brick house begun in 1834 by the Francisco family, with fourteen secondary resources.","why_significant":"The farm preserves an early nineteenth-century brick house remodeled in the Colonial Revival style in 1921-22, along with a largely intact group of outbuildings, stables and gates from the 1900s-1930s. It is also tied to the Francisco and Sterrett families and to the Warm Springs resort era, when Tate Sterrett used the house as a dining establishment for resort guests. The form recommends local significance.","narrative":"Oakley Farm is a roughly sixty-acre property on the floor of the Warm Springs Valley in Bath County, Virginia, just south of the village of Warm Springs. Its main house, a two-story brick residence, was begun by the Francisco family in 1834, as a date brick records, and appears in tax records by 1837. It began with Federal and Greek Revival detail, and was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style in 1921-22 by the Sterrett family, who added a classical entry frontispiece, a sitting porch and a north service wing. Fourteen other resources survive, including a nineteenth-century log cabin, a 1922 laundry and wood house and garage, a ca. 1905 long barn, two Colonial Revival stables from about 1930, stone gates and a section of the antebellum Jackson River Turnpike. Tate Sterrett, a livery manager at The Homestead resort, bought the farm in 1905 and for a time ran it as a country dining spot for resort guests. The property is considered significant at the local level.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house and outbuildings remain in domestic and agricultural use; a 1940s wing of the house was recently removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.278869-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/6797/41679720/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07000803.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000803/aa6b53c781-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000803/aa6b53c781-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakley_Farm,_Bath_County.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakley_Farm,_Bath_County.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679720","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakley_Farm_(Warm_Springs,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bath-county/oakley-farm-07000803/"}