Willow Shade, also known as the Willa Cather House, is a historic home located near

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Frederick County, Virginia Frederick County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,419. Its county seat is Winchester. The county was formed in 1743 by the splitting of Orange County. It is Virginia's northernmost county ...

. The house was built in 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay-by-three-bay, rectangular brick dwelling in a vernacular Late Greek Revival style. It has a three bay by two bay rear ell. The house sits on an

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. It was the childhood home of author

Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', '' The Song of the Lark'', and ''My Ántonia''. In 1923, ...

(1873–1947) and was built by her grandfather, William Cather. She was born at the nearby

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and resided at Willow Shade from 1874 to 1883 before moving to Nebraska. an
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in 1990.

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* Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1851 Houses in Frederick County, Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Virginia Willa Cather 1851 establishments in Virginia {{FrederickCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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