Scaleby (Boyce, Virginia)
Description
The main house is a 2+1⁄2-story, nine-bay, brick dwelling in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a main block measuring 100 feet by 70 feet, connected to a dependency by a 36 feet long hyphen. The front facade features a five-bay front porch supported by colossal Ionic order columns. Also on the property are the contributing Gardener's Cottage, the Farm Manager's House, the stable, the garage, a barn, a double-crib barn, the tenant house, a smokehouse, a water storage facility, the pumphouse, a two-story tower-like water catchment facility, a garden pergola, an ice-well with a gazebo, a stone terrace, and a concrete-lined pond. The main house has a steel frame, with reinforced concrete floor and stair construction
Scaleby was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Lee, Anne Carter (2015). Buildings of Virginia, Valley, Piedmont, Southside and Southwest. University of Virginia Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8139-3565-2.
- ^ Stuart Mawbry (January 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Scaleby" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo
