Bare House and Mill

Bare House and Mill is a historic home and grist mill ruins located at Stuarts Draft, Augusta County, Virginia. The house was built about 1857, and is a two-story, three bay brick dwelling with Greek Revival and Italianate style design influences. It has a metal-sheathed hipped roof one-story entry porches on the front and rear. Also on the property are a contributing wellhouse and meathouse (c. 1860), barn (c. 1900, 1998), privy, cistern, and pumphouse. The ruins of the Bare Mill and related mill race and piers are also located on the property. The two-story, stone grist mill was built about 1800, and may have shut down after the floods of September 1870.[3]

Bare House and Mill
Ruins of the mill
Location157 Wilda Rd., Stuarts Draft, Virginia
Coordinates38°1′36″N 79°5′40″W
Area15 acres (6.1 ha)
Builtc. 1800, c. 1857 (1857)
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.02001364[1]
VLR No.007-0834
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 21, 2002
Designated VLRSeptember 11, 2002[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[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. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. J. Daniel Pezzoni (June 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bare House and Mill" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos


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