Maple Springs

Maple Springs is a historic home and farm located at Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built in three sections. The first section is of heavy mortise-and-tenon frame construction; section two is of planked log construction, and appears to have been built about 1775 and joined together to form a hall-parlor-plan dwelling in the mid-1800s; and section three is of lighter and cruder frame construction, was originally a detached or semi-detached unit that was joined to the house around 1900 to serve as a kitchen. It features large fieldstone chimneys on the first and second section gable ends, one with a brick stack.[3]

Maple Springs
Property entrance
Location20509 Clover Hill Rd., Jeffersonton, Virginia
Coordinates38°34′56″N 77°53′28″W
Area25 acres (10 ha)
Builtc. 1775 (1775)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.97001510[1]
VLR No.023-0023
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 12, 1997
Designated VLRSeptember 17, 1997[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[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. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. J. Daniel Pezzoni and Leslie A. Giles (April 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Maple Springs" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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