Four Stairs

Four Stairs
Four Stairs, November 2012
Four Stairs is located in Northern Virginia
Four Stairs
Four Stairs is located in Virginia
Four Stairs
Four Stairs is located in the United States
Four Stairs
Location830 Leigh Mill Rd., Great Falls, Virginia
Coordinates38°59′10″N 77°16′35″W / 38.98611°N 77.27639°W / 38.98611; -77.27639
Area6.4 acres (2.6 ha)
Builtc. 1737 (1737), c. 1850
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.04000842[1]
VLR No.029-0106
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 11, 2004
Designated VLRJune 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. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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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