Folly (Staunton, Virginia)
Folly | |
| Location | South of Staunton on U.S. 11, near Staunton, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°05′21″N 79°06′05″W / 38.08917°N 79.10139°W |
| Area | 570 acres (230 ha) |
| Built | c. 1818 |
| Architectural style | Early Republic, Jeffersonian Classicism |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001995 |
| VLR No. | 007-0015 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 25, 1973 |
| Designated VLR | September 18, 1973 |
Folly is a historic plantation house located near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The house was built about 1818, and is a one-story, brick structure with a long, low service wing and deck-on-hip roof in the Jeffersonian style. It has an original rear ell fronted by a Tuscan order colonnade. The front facade features a tetrastyle pedimented portico with stuccoed Tuscan columns and a simple lunette in the pediment. A similar portico is on the north side and a third portico was replaced by a wing added in 1856. The house closely resembles Edgemont near Covesville, Virginia. Also on the property are contributing original brick serpentine walls, a spring house, smokehouse and icehouse.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.