Floris Historic District

Floris is a small rural village and farming district in western Fairfax County, Virginia, now surrounded by suburban development. Its core is the crossroads of Centreville Road and West Ox Road, with the Frying Pan Meetinghouse to the northwest and two farms, Ellmore and Kidwell, on the east side. Much of the land is part of Frying Pan Farm Park, which preserves and interprets farm life from the 1920s to the 1950s. The meetinghouse, built about 1785, is the earliest building. Most other main resources date from the 1890s to the 1920s and are modest vernacular houses, schools, and a Methodist church, with some Colonial Revival and Gothic Revival details. The district is recognized for showing how a dairy farming community developed in Northern Virginia from the late nineteenth century to about 1960. Its fields, farmsteads, and village layout still convey that agricultural past, although some buildings have been lost or altered and the park has added newer structures.