National Register of Historic Places

Oaks, The

Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia
Listed
May 29, 2002
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
02000585

About this property

The Oaks, also known as Innes Hill, is a historic home and farm located near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. The house was built between 1931 and 1933, and consists of a 1 to 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, Classical Revival style main block with a four-part plan. The attached sections are a one-story pantry and kitchen wing and garage attached by a four-bay arcade. The main block features a prominent two-story, four-bay, pedimented portico has four extraordinary fluted Tower of the Winds columns. Also on the property are the contributing Italianate style brick stable (c. 1847); a brick smokehouse; and an agent's cottage, tile barn, corn house, spring house and summerhouse built between 1928 and 1930; garage with servants' quarters, greenhouse, log cabin, potato house, pump house, chicken house and field shed built between 1931 and 1945; the mansion landscape and scene of the 1881 duel; and a windmill. In September 1881, it was the site of one of the last four duels in Virginia, prior to enactment of anti-duel legislation in 1882. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Location

8457 Oaks Rd.
Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia
38.68525, -77.84804

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Nearby Battles

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2.4 mi
Cavalry Fight at Sulphur Springs
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Oaks, The was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 2002.

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