Burrland Farm Historic District is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Middleburg, Fauquier County, Virginia. The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 14 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object on a 458-acre thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm. The buildings were built between 1927 and 1932, and include a Georgian Revival style training barn, a polo barn, a stallion barn, two broodmare barns, a yearling barn, a field shed, an equipment shed, a farm manager's house / office, a trainer's cottage, a mess hall quarters, a foreman's dwelling, three mash houses, five garages, a pumphouse, and a feed and storage warehouse. The contributing structures include a silo, a springhouse, three loading chutes, two teasing chutes, two rings, three run-in sheds, one sun hut and an entrance gate. The original Burrland house was built in 1879 and expanded in 1927 for William Ziegler Jr. by architect William Lawrence Bottomley. Ziegler sold the property in 1955 to Eleonora Sears, who "deliberately gutted and burned [the mansion] down" in 1961. She then sold the farm in 1966.[3][4]
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| Location | Burrland Ln., near Middleburg, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°56′37″N 77°45′22″W / 38.94361°N 77.75611°W |
| Area | 458 acres (185 ha) |
| Built | c. 1927-1932 |
| Architect | Bottomley, William Lawrence |
| Architectural style | Georgian Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 97001406[1] |
| VLR No. | 030-1017 |
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| Added to NRHP | November 7, 1997 |
| Designated VLR | July 2, 1997[2] |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ "WILLIAM and HELEN MARTIN MURPHY ZIEGLER, Jr. HOUSE" (PDF). Landmarks Preservation Commission. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
- ^ Janet G. Murphy (January 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Burrland Farm Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 18, 2018. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map Archived September 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine