Blenheim (Spring Mills, Virginia)
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Blenheim is a historic home located near Spring Mills, in
Campbell County, Virginia Campbell County is a United States county situated in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Located in the Piedmont region of Virginia, Campbell borders the Blue Ridge Mountains. The county seat is Rustburg. Grounded on a ...
. It was built about 1828, and is a -story, five-bay, single-pile, frame
I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...
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., , an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1979, with a boundary increase in 1994.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1828 Houses in Campbell County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Campbell County, Virginia {{CampbellCountyVA-NRHP-stub