Longwood (Earlysville, Virginia)
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Longwood is a historic home and farm located near Earlysville,
Albemarle County, Virginia Albemarle County is a United States county (United States), county located in the Piedmont region of Virginia, Piedmont region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottes ...
. The house was built about 1790, with additions between 1810 and 1820, and about 1940. It is a two-story, five-bay frame building with a two-story store/post office addition and a small one-story, two-bay, gable-roofed frame wing. It has Federal and
Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...
design elements. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn (c. 1890), a frame schoolhouse for African American students [c. 1900), a late-19th-century stone well, and the 19th-century cemetery of the Michie family. an
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/ref> It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.


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