Loudoun County, Virginia House Histories

United States   Virginia    Loudoun County   [[Loudoun_County,_Virginia_House_Histories|House Histories

The Lewis File, at the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg, Va., contains "over 1,000 buildings surveyed for the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission; the Historic House File - information on homes and public buildings, such as schools, mills, churches, and bridges in the county."

Pat Rock published a column titled "Historic Houses and Places of Loudoun County," in Loudoun: The 1757 Legacy, Newsletter of the Loudoun Genealogy Club. This journal is available as an. Here is a list of the houses, their occupants, and the newsletter citations:


 * Buckskin Manor, Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 1996):7. [Built by the Cocke family.]
 * The Carr House, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Dec. 1996):7. [Home of the Romine and Blakely families.]
 * Catalpa Grove, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar. 1997):7. [Home owned by the Poak, McGavack, Colwell, and Vandeventer families.]
 * The Chamblin House, Round Hill, Va., Vol. 6, No. 1 (Mar. 1998):7. [Home of the Chamblin family.]
 * Chesnut Hill, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 1995):5. [Home of the Clapham and Mason families.]
 * Coton, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1993):4. [Home of the Lee family.]
 * Exeter, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Spring 1995):6. [Home of the Mason, Selden, Rust, and Carr families.]
 * Greenway Farm, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sep. 1997):7. [Home of the Mead family.]
 * Hannah Brown House, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Sep. 1996):7. [Built by Thomas Birkby, home of the McIntosh and Dezerega families.]
 * Harrison House, Vol. 5, No. 2 (June 1997):7. [Home of the Minor, Hereford, Thornton, Losch, Gray, Benedict, and Harrison families.]
 * Harrison House (also known as Glenfiddich), Vol. 7, No. 1 (Mar. 1999):7. [Built by Henry Tazewell Harrison, home of the Harrison family, leased to James Dickey, author of Deliverance.]
 * Hearth House, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3 (Sep. 1998):7. [Built by James Trayhern, home of the Tavenner and Dillon families.]
 * Locust Grove/ Liberty Hall, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer 1993):2. [Home of the Van Deventer family.]
 * Rock Spring Farm, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Dec. 1997):7.
 * Stoney Lonesome, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar. 1996):5. [Home of the Lickey, Eaton, and New families.]

Other Loudoun County house histories include:


 * Bergner, Audrey Windsor. Old Plantations and Historic Homes around Middleburg. Free Lookups Available!
 * Lewis, John G. "Coton Manor over the Ages," The Bulletin of the Historical Society of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1957-1976. Leesburg, Va.: Goose Creek Productions, 1998, pp. 245-266. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!
 * McGhee, George C. "George Washington's Trusteeship over the Estate of the Reverend Dr. Charles Green, 1765-1772, Which Included the Present Area of Farmer's Delight Farm, Loudoun County, Virginia," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 143, No. 4 (Dec. 1999):639-647. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Monroe, James. "Monroe's Estate in Loudoun County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Apr. 1934):168. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * "Oatlands: A National Trust Property, Leesburg, Virginia," Loudoun: The 1757 Legacy, Newsletter of the Loudoun Genealogy Club, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 &amp; 2 (Mar. &amp; Jun. 2001):1-2. Available at FHL.
 * Osburn, Penelope M. "Exeter Plantation: Its History and Architecture," The Bulletin of the Historical Society of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1957-1976. Leesburg, Va.: Goose Creek Productions, 1998, pp. 225-244. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!
 * Williams, Harrison. Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie, 1938. Available at FHL; reprint at FHL; digital versions at Ancestry ($), BYU Family History Archives, and Heritage Quest Online ($). Free Lookups Available!