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Long Grass Plantation is a historic home and national historic district located along what was the Roanoke River basin. In the 1950s it was flooded as the Buggs Island Lake/John H. Kerr Reservoir in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The house was built circa 1800 by George Tarry on land belonging to his father, Samuel Tarry and Long Grass Plantation encompassed approximately 2000 acres (8 km²). Today, most of the land once belonging to the plantation is submerged and is owned by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Only 27 +/- acres of privately owned land make up the grounds of Long Grass plantation. The property was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Registry and the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1995.〔See the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mecklenburg County, Virginia on Wikipedia and the references there.〕 == Evolution of the main structure == The original C. 1797 hall and parlor structure still exists. This Small dwelling was probably already existed when George Tarry moved to Long Grass Plantation. It was added to in renovations and expansions in four major phases, two in the nineteenth century and two in the twentieth century, from the 1830s to the mid 1990s. The current structure is dominated by the additions made in 1832 by the builder-architect/Builder Jacob W. Holt of Warrenton, North Carolina. In 1831-1832, Holt was commissioned to build a 2-story, single-pile, 3-bay Home Structure to the front of the original 1797 1.5 story house. The two structures were connected via a 1-story hyphen with Large windows on its side walls. The 1832 Greek Revival Home on the Front is much larger in scale and mass than the original 1797 hall and parlor house. The new Front has a neoclassical entrance and porch (probably salvaged from an earlier home in Warren County or along the Roanoke River), This porch features many "Jeffersonian" details, and the double front door surrounded by Glass transom and sidelights which were mentioned in the book, ''Life on the Roaring Roanoke''. This spacious new addition was an indication of the family's improving economic fortune that had been generated from tobacco cultivation by slave labor. It was built as a Wedding Present in 1832, when George Tarry Married Mary Euphemia Hamilton. Several years later (probably in 1857), Holt was commissioned to make improvements to the Original 1797 Structure. By this time, Holt had adopted elements of the popular Mid Victorian Italianate style of architecture in his designs. Holt raised the roof of the original hall and parlor to make a full second story and designed a relatively ornate single story Victorian Italianate porch across the rear of the house. During the Depression years, the house was leased to a tenant farmer. The Tarry Family returned to live at Long Grass in the late 1950s. In the 1950s, the house was renovated and retrofitted with modern mechanical systems. The one-story hyphen connecting the two structures was raised to two stories. Two new bathrooms were created – one upstairs in the new hyphen space and one downstairs in the 1832 dining room just off of the hyphen hall. The Tarrys changed the dining room into a bedroom, and used the original 1797 parlor as their family dining room. They also added a kitchen adjoining and attached the original 1797 structure at that time. This kitchen was adjacent to the 1797 "dining room". The most recent renovation occurred in 1992–1994 after Bruce and Sudie Park of Raleigh, North Carolina purchased the property. Michael Denton of Clarksville, Virginia and Trent Park, son of the owners managed the renovation project, including manufacture of custom moldings at the farm workshop. The property was completely renovated. The spaces between the original hall and parlor and the Holt addition, on either side of the hyphen, were enclosed and they added a breakfast room and library on the first floor, and two new bathrooms upstairs. New closets were added in such a way as to maintain the symmetry of the existing rooms throughout the home. The 1950s bathroom was removed from the 1832 Holt dining room. New, updated mechanical systems were installed. Exterior and interior repairs were made to the entire structure. New foundations were built for the exterior porches when new floors were laid. A new Tern Metal roof was installed. The 1831 entry hall walls are covered in an 18th-century Chinese hand-painted wall covering which was donated to Long Grass by the Marshall Cooper Family of Henderson, North Carolina. The Cooper Family owned Harriet Henderson Mills. The home that this wall covering came from was owned by Marshall Cooper,Sr. and upon his widow's death the home was demolished by the family. It was located on Charles Street in Henderson, North Carolina. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Long Grass Plantation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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