Oakdale is a historic home and farm located near the town of
Floyd in
Floyd County,
Virginia
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,
United States
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. The house was built about 1890, and is a large two-story, three bay, frame dwelling in the
Queen Anne style. It has a complex hipped roof and features a double-tier heavily ornamented front porch with turned posts, a spindle frieze, and sawn brackets. Also, on the property are a contributing large center-aisle barn (c. 1890), a two-story brick
general store building (c. 1890), and a
granary
A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most often made of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animal ...
(c. 1915) and garage (c. 1935).
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2010.[
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1890
Queen Anne architecture in Virginia
Houses in Floyd County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Floyd County, Virginia
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