Spring Hill is a historic home located at

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, U.S.. It was added to the

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in 1983.

Architecture

The main house dates to about 1785, and is a two-story, brick dwelling expanded in the 1870s and 1930s. The oldest building on the property is the brick field slave quarters, built about 1765, and once served as the main house. Also on the property are a brick dairy and kitchen. The house is representative of the evolution and integration of academic and vernacular architectural styles covering over two centuries of Albemarle County settlement. an
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History

The Spring Hill property was part of a tract of land owned in 1735 by Charles Hudson, and sold two years later to Michael Woods (1737–1748). Woods lived further west at the foot of Woods' Gap (now

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), the site may have been lived by his son-in-law Andrew Wallace, when it was sold in 1748 with by Woods. Spring Hill was also the childhood home of noted architect

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(1869–1944), and his sister, visual artist

Virginia Hargraves Wood Virginia Hargraves Wood (married name: Virginia Hargraves Wood Goddard; – February 24, 1941) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and teacher. She is best known for her painted portraits of women and children, and numerous book ill ...

(1872–1941).

References

External links

Spring Hill Claim House, State Route 637, Ivy, Albemarle County, VA
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