Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District is a national

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located adjacent to

The Tuleyries The Tuleyries is an ante-bellum estate near White Post, Virginia. History The complex was built around 1833 by Colonel Joseph Tuley, Jr. (1796–1860), a large slaveholder, who made the name a pun on his name and the Tuileries Palace. The ho ...

at Boyce,

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. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure. They include a large, two-story, brick slave's quarters built about 1825; a stone and brick stables that was later converted into a dwelling; a turn-of-the-20th-century farmhouse and its associated agricultural and domestic related outbuildings; a late-19th century vernacular hall-parlor-plan house; two historic dwelling sites; as well as orchards and fields of improved pasture. an
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/ref> Graham F. Blandy bequeathed 700 acres of his approximately 900-acre estate to the

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, which accepted it after his death in 1926. The University began its program of agricultural biology at Blandy in 1927, and converted part of the landscape into an arboretum. Dr. Orland E. White planted began planting the Arboretum in 1929, and upon his retirement in 1955 it was named the

Orland E. White Research Arboretum The Orland E. White Arboretum, officially the State Arboretum of Virginia, is an arboretum (172 acres) operated by the University of Virginia as part of the Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District, Blandy Experimental Farm (700 acres). It is loc ...

. In 1986, the Virginia general assembly designated the property the State Arboretum of Virginia. The slaves' quarters, referred to as the Quarters, was converted into laboratories and student and faculty housing. In 1941, the Quarters building was greatly enlarged with the addition of three

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wings. This addition created a U-shaped building with the original Quarters section as the east wing. A research greenhouse was built at the same time. It was listed on the

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in 1992.

Gallery

Blandy_Quarters_front.jpg, Historic Quarters Blandy Farm Historical Marker.jpg, Historical Marker

References

External links

Blandy Experimental Farm: The State Arboretum of Virginia

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