Kenmore Farm is a historic farm and educational property at 369 Kenmore Road, just outside Amherst, Virginia. The centerpiece of the more than 130-acre (53 ha) property is a c. 1856 brick Greek Revival farmhouse, built by Samuel Garland, Sr., a prominent local lawyer and politician. The property was used intermittently between 1872 and 1899 as a preparatory high school, operated by Henry Aubrey Strode, who later became the first president of Clemson University. As such, its building complex includes a dormitory and apartment building in addition to various mainly agricultural outbuildings, including a corn crib and barn, and the remnants of an outdoor summer kitchen. The property has seen predominantly agrarian use in the 20th century.[2]
The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Kenmore Farm" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
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