{"nrhp_refnum":"77001492","name":"Linden Farm","other_names":["Linden","Dew House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Farnham on VA 3","address_restricted":false,"city":"Farnham","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.89137027800007,"lon":-76.63332709206776,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Linden Farm (also called the Dew House) is a small story-and-a-half frame farmhouse near Farnham in Richmond County, Virginia, begun around 1700 and in its present form by about 1725, probably built by Andrew Dew.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare example of a colonial vernacular farmhouse on Virginia's Northern Neck, perhaps the oldest house there. It survives in a remarkable state of preservation. Notable features include massive asymmetrical pyramidal chimneys, a closed-string \"Jacobean\" stair, rare riven clapboards, and tilted-false-plate eaves framing that indicates an early date.","narrative":"Linden Farm is a small story-and-a-half frame farmhouse near Farnham in Richmond County, Virginia, on a 28.2-acre tract. It was begun around 1700 and reached its present form by about 1725. It was probably built by Andrew Dew, who received a 302-acre grant in 1708 and appears to have been a cloth merchant. His son Andrew likely expanded it from a single large room with a lean-to into a central-passage plan. The house retains unusual early features: tall asymmetrical pyramidal brick chimneys, a straight-run stair with closed string and heavy turned balusters, rare riven clapboards preserved beneath plaster, and tilted-false-plate eaves framing normally associated with very early construction. Greek Revival mantels and grained doors were added in the mid-nineteenth century. Ownership passed through several families, and the Beaucham family held it from 1909. It was listed as a rare colonial vernacular farmhouse on the Northern Neck, a region with few surviving colonial buildings.","period_of_significance":"First quarter of eighteenth century","architect_builder":"Probably Andrew Dew (original section)","architectural_style":"Colonial vernacular farmhouse (Greek Revival mantels and interior elements noted)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as fair condition and currently unoccupied and for sale at the time of nomination (1976).","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.75135-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/6828/41682848/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/77001492.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001492/b455acb835-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001492/b455acb835-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden_Farm,_Lancaster_Road,_Warsaw_vicinity_(Richmond_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden_Farm,_Lancaster_Road,_Warsaw_vicinity_(Richmond_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005837","name":"Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/occupacia-rappahannock-rural-historic-district-100005837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682848","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15242401"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/linden-farm-77001492/"}