568 Smithfield Ln., Berryville, Virginia. County/parish: Clarke.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 16, 2001. NRIS 01000148.
8 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Smithfield Farm is a historic plantation house and farm located near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, United States. The manor house was completed in 1824, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Federal style. It has a low-hipped roof and front and rear porticos. Also on the property are a schoolteacher's residence and a combination farm office and a summer kitchen, each with stepped parapet faŅ«ades. Also on the property are the contributing large brick bank barn (1822), a brick equipment shed, a slave quarters, and a stone stable, all built around 1820, and a wooden barn (c. 1830).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Presently the house is a popular bed & breakfast, and home to organic farmer and New York Times best-selling author Forrest Pritchard, son of Ruth Smith Pritchard, owner of the bed and breakfast and a direct descendant of the original owners of Smithfield.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680194