Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District

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.