Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near

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. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the

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style, a two-story brick dining room wing which dates from the early 20th century, and a mid-20th-century brick kitchen wing. Also on the property are the contributing stone garage, a 19th-century frame

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with attached barn, an early-20th-century frame barn, a vacant early-20th-century tenant house, a stone tower, an early-20th-century frame tenant house, an abandoned storage house, as well as the stone foundations of three dwellings of undetermined date. The land was once owned by William Strother, maternal grandfather of

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, and it has often been claimed that the future president was born on the property. an
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in 1992.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1815 Federal architecture in Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia Houses in Orange County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Virginia {{OrangeCountyVA-NRHP-stub