{"nrhp_refnum":"92001580","name":"Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File No. 21-550"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"US 50/17 S side, 4 mi. W of the Shenandoah R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boyce","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.06079520950007,"lon":-78.06063215896529,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 712-acre historic district of farmland, an arboretum and farm buildings near Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia, bequeathed to the University of Virginia in 1926 by Graham F. Blandy. It includes a 1825-1830 brick slave quarters enlarged in 1941, farmhouses, outbuildings and early building sites.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its use as an agricultural research farm and arboretum run by the University of Virginia from 1927 under director Orland E. White. The Quarters is described as one of the largest and most original surviving nineteenth-century slave quarters in the northern Shenandoah Valley. The land was formerly part of the Tuleyries estate, and the Orland E. White Arboretum is described as the only mature arboretum on limestone soils in the eastern United States.","narrative":"Blandy Experimental Farm occupies 712 acres of farmland, orchards and pasture in Clarke County, Virginia, left to the University of Virginia in 1926 by Graham F. Blandy, whose will required that it be used to teach farming. The land was once part of the Tuleyries estate. The centerpiece is the Quarters, a two-story brick building of about 1825 to 1830 that was built as slave quarters and later converted to laboratories and housing. In 1941 architect Stanislaw J. Makielski added three Colonial Revival wings, forming a U-shaped complex. Other resources include a stone and brick former stable remodeled as a Craftsman-style house, a moved hall-parlor house, a Victorian farmhouse with a bank barn built by Jacob S. Garver, a packing shed, a 1941 greenhouse and early building sites. The Orland E. White Arboretum, begun under the farm's first director, became the State Arboretum of Virginia in 1986.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stanislaw J. Makielski (1941 additions to the Quarters); Jacob S. Garver (late-nineteenth-century farmhouse)","architectural_style":"Federal; Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Victorian Vernacular; Vernacular Hall-Parlor Plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Quarters remains in use for laboratories, offices, dormitories and dining; the Old Greenhouse is being restored; the packing shed was converted to classrooms. The district is described as retaining much of its historic appearance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.376893-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/6802/41680246/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92001580.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001580/b610145d8e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001580/b610145d8e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BLANDY_EXPERIMENTAL_FARM_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_CLARKE_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BLANDY_EXPERIMENTAL_FARM_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_CLARKE_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680246","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandy_Experimental_Farm_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712038"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/blandy-experimental-farm-historic-district-92001580/"}