Blenheim (Spring Mills, Virginia)
Blenheim | |
Entrance to the property | |
| Location | 2.4 mi. SW of Spring Mills, near Spring Mills, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°13′15″N 78°57′7″W / 37.22083°N 78.95194°W |
| Area | 334 acres (135 ha) |
| Built | c. 1828 |
| Architectural style | Central-passage I |
| NRHP reference No. | 79003033, 94000457 (Boundary Increase) |
| VLR No. | 015-0066 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 31, 1979, May 26, 1994 (Boundary Increase) |
| Designated VLR | February 15, 1977, March 10, 1994 |
Blenheim is a historic home located near Spring Mills, in Campbell County, Virginia. It was built about 1828, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay, single-pile, frame I-house dwelling on a brick basement. It is sheathed with beaded weatherboards and covered with a standing-seam sheet metal roof broken by three pedimented dormers. The interior features elaborate, provincially conceived but skillfully executed, woodwork. Also on the property is a contributing late-19th century frame stable.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 1994.