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Folly
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	South of Staunton on U.S. 11, near Staunton, Virginia
Coordinates	38°05′21″N 79°06′05″W / 38.08917°N 79.10139°W / 38.08917; -79.10139
Area	570 acres (230 ha)
Built	c. 1818 (1818)
Architectural style	Early Republic, Jeffersonian Classicism
NRHP reference No.	73001995
VLR No.	007-0015
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 25, 1973
Designated VLR	September 18, 1973

Folly is a historic plantation house located near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The house was built about 1818, and is a one-story, brick structure with a long, low service wing and deck-on-hip roof in the Jeffersonian style. It has an original rear ell fronted by a Tuscan order colonnade. The front facade features a tetrastyle pedimented portico with stuccoed Tuscan columns and a simple lunette in the pediment. A similar portico is on the north side and a third portico was replaced by a wing added in 1856. The house closely resembles Edgemont near Covesville, Virginia. Also on the property are contributing original brick serpentine walls, a spring house, smokehouse and icehouse.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

See also

• Folly Mills Creek

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. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (August 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Folly" (PDF). and Accompanying photo

External links

Media related to Folly (Staunton, Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons

• Folly Farm, Folly Mills Creek, Staunton, Staunton, VA including 7 photos, 10 measured drawings, and 4 data pages at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)

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