Sanders Farm

Sanders Farm is a historic home and farm located at Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The Brick House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped, Queen Anne style brick farmhouse. It features ornamental gables and porches. Also on the property are the contributing cold frame with a stepped front parapet (c. 1900), a vaulted stone spring house, a one-story brick servants quarters (c. 1880), a cinder block store with an upstairs apartment and an accompanying privy (1950s), a frame vehicle repair shop (c. 1920s), a stone reservoir (1880s) two corn crib, a frame gambrel-roofed barn, a one-story tenant house (c. 1920), stone bridge abutments, and the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine (late 1880s), a complex of rock formations and tram line beds.[3]

Sanders Farm
Location3908 Fort Chiswell Rd., Max Meadows, Virginia
Coordinates36°52′39″N 80°52′07″W
Area170 acres (69 ha)
Built1880 (1880)
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.03000454[1]
VLR No.098-0192
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 22, 2003
Designated VLRMarch 19, 2003[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. J. Daniel Pezzoni (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sanders Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos
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