Blue Ridge Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville,

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Overview

The property includes a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story

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-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm's horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed. The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed in 1933-1934 by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood.

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n Henry T. Oxnard (1860-1922) built a

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operation at Blue Ridge Farm in 1903. Purchased by

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Cary Travers Grayson in 1928, members of the Grayson family still own the property. an
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It was listed on the

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in 2006.

References

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