Spring Grove is a historic home located at
Oak Corner,
Caroline County, Virginia. It was built in 1856, and is an
Italian Villa
A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.
Typology and distribution
Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas ...
style dwelling built for
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr.
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr. (October 18, 1822 – August 20, 1881) was a prominent Virginia politician, serving in the United States Congress and then in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
Biography
DeJarnette was born ...
(1822–1881) on a plantation that had been owned by the DeJarnette family, French
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
immigrants to Virginia, since 1740. The 26 room, 12,000 square foot mansion is the third house to occupy the site.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1976.
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Italianate architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1856
Houses in Caroline County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Caroline County, Virginia
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