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Cobble Hill Farm 101 Woodlee Road Staunton, VA Designed and built by Sam Collins in 1937, the residence located on Cobble Hill Farm demonstrates a combination of both Tudor Revival and French Eclectic influences. The owner's residence, its formal gardens, and the accompanying outbuildings sit high on a knoll overlooking gently rolling pastureland to the north and east. The land now known as Cobble Hill Farm was part of the original 1736 Manor of Beverley land grant. Between 1738-1744, Colonel William Beverley of Essex County sold one quarter of this land, with an average acreage per farm of 503 acres. By 1760, three quarters of the landowners in Beverley Manor owned between 100 - 400 acres and by 1775 all of what had been forest in 1736 had become productive farmland. As Staunton became a center of banking, manufacturing and retail trade in the mid-nineteenth century and sustained a generation-long agricultural depression in the late nineteenth century; it was in the subdividing of land that fortunes were made in the region. In 1932, and later in 1964, parcels contiguous to the Cobble Hill property were re-acquired, bringing the final acreage to 196 acres, and insuring that the land that had been farmed since the late 1700's would remain so. Click here for directions to Cobble Hill Farm. |
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