Four Stairs

Four Stairs

Four Stairs, November 2012
Location 840 Leigh Mill Rd., Great Falls, Virginia
Coordinates 38°59′10″N 77°16′35″W / 38.98611°N 77.27639°W / 38.98611; -77.27639Coordinates: 38°59′10″N 77°16′35″W / 38.98611°N 77.27639°W / 38.98611; -77.27639
Area 6.4 acres (2.6 ha)
Built c. 1737 (1737), c. 1850
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 04000842[1]
VLR # 029-0106
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 11, 2004
Designated VLR June 16, 2004[2]

Four Stairs is a historic home located at Great Falls, Fairfax County, Virginia. The earliest section was built about 1737, as a gable-roofed, one-room, one-story with loft log house. It was later enlarged with a shed-roofed west side log pen and rear shed-roofed timber-framed kitchen. These early sections were raised to two-stories after 1796. A two-story, three-bay, parlor-and-side-hall-plan frame addition in the Greek Revival style was built about 1850, and became the focus of the house. The house was restored in 2002-2004. Also on the property are a contributing a family cemetery and a stone-lined hand-dug well.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Tanya Edwards Beauchamp (March 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Four Stairs" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos


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