Blair Farm: A Historic Farm in Boone, NC

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Mid 19th Century Revival architectural style refers to the resurgence of architectural designs that drew inspiration from earlier historical styles during the mid-19th century. This movement emerged as a reaction to the industrialization and mass production of the time, emphasizing craftsmanship, uniqueness, and a return to traditional aesthetics. There is a farm in the town of Boone, North Carolina in Watagua County that contains this particular architectural style known as Blair Farm.

The front of the farmhouse is pictured in the picture for this particular article, but it is only one part of this historic farm that takes up about 9.1 acres worth of space overall farmhouse. The original section of this farm was built all the way back in 1844. Additions were made to the farm later, but even the youngest modification to the farm was made in the 1960s, making even that particular modification over fifty-six years old at the time of this writing. This is important since the farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places - or NRHP for short - back in the year 2008.

You can find this historic farm at the coordinates 36°12′10″N 81°38′54″W on the north side of the road known as VA 1522. This building has the NRHP reference number 08000812 and also includes a carriage house & a granary/ wood shed.

Citations:

- Curl, James Stevens. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2006.

- Hitchcock, Henry Russell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Yale University Press, 1989.