NW of Gore on U.S. 50, Gore, Virginia. County/parish: Frederick.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 16, 1978. NRIS 78003017.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Willa Cather Birthplace, also known as the Rachel E. Boak House, is the site near Gore, Virginia, where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather was born in 1873. The log home was built in the early 19th century by her great-grandfather and has been enlarged twice. The building was previously the home of Rachel E. Boak, Cather's grandmother. Cather and her parents lived in the house only about a year before they moved to another home in Frederick County. The farmhouse was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) in 1976 and the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1978.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680816