Folly is a historic

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located near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The house was built about 1818, and is a one-story, brick structure with a long, low service wing and deck-on-hip roof in the Jeffersonian style. It has an original rear ell fronted by a

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colonnade. The front facade features a tetrastyle pedimented portico with stuccoed Tuscan columns and a simple lunette in the pediment. A similar portico is on the north side and a third portico was replaced by a wing added in 1856. The house closely resembles Edgemont near

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. Also on the property are contributing original brick serpentine walls, a

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and icehouse. an
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in 1973.

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Folly Farm, Folly Mills Creek, Staunton, Staunton, VA
including 7 photos, 10 measured drawings, and 4 data pages at the

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(HABS) Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Palladian Revival architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1818 Houses in Augusta County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia 1818 establishments in Virginia {{AugustaCountyVA-NRHP-stub