Blenheim (Spring Mills, Virginia)

Blenheim is a historic home located near Spring Mills, in Campbell County, Virginia. It was built about 1828, and is a 1 1/2-story, five-bay, single-pile, frame I-house dwelling on a brick basement. It is sheathed with beaded weatherboards and covered with a standing-seam sheet metal roof broken by three pedimented dormers. The interior features elaborate, provincially conceived but skillfully executed, woodwork. Also on the property is a contributing late-19th century frame stable.[3]

Blenheim
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Entrance to the property
Location	2.4 mi. SW of Spring Mills, near Spring Mills, Virginia
Coordinates	37°13′15″N 78°57′7″W
Area	334 acres (135 ha)
Built	c. 1828
Architectural style	Central-passage I
NRHP reference No.	79003033, 94000457 (Boundary Increase)[1]
VLR No.	015-0066
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 31, 1979, May 26, 1994 (Boundary Increase)
Designated VLR	February 15, 1977, March 10, 1994[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 1994.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blenheim" (PDF)., Calder Loth (January 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Blenheim Amendment" (PDF)., and Accompanying photo