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Warrenton Historic District is a national historic district located at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia.When originally listed, it encompassed 288 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the county seat of Warrenton.
The well-known Airlie Conference Center is 3 miles (5 km) north of Warrenton, and the historic Vint Hill Farms military facility is 9 miles (14 km) east. Fauquier Hospital is located in the town. Surrounded by Virginia wine and horse country, Warrenton is a popular destination outside Washington, D.C.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Warrenton Training Center was established on June 1, 1951, as part of a "Federal Relocation Arc" of hardened underground bunkers built to support continuity of government in the event of a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. [1] [2] The center was ostensibly designated a Department of Defense Communication Training Activity and served as a communications training school. [1]
Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson, owner of historic Blue Ridge Farm. Eppa Hunton, U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia, born and lived in Warrenton. Sandy Lerner, Cisco founder who maintains a farm in Upperville. Charles Marshall, born in Warrenton, assistant adjutant general, aide de camp and military secretary to Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Monterosa, also known as Monte Rosa or Neptune Lodge, is a historic home located in Warrenton, Virginia. The original house was constructed about 1847–1848, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, stuccoed brick house with a gable roof and side-passage plan.
North Wales is a historic plantation [3] and national historic district located in Fauquier County, Virginia near Warrenton, Virginia. Currently it is a 1,287.9-acre (521.2 ha) historic district that includes a manor home and farm. A date of significance for the site is 1776. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]
Brentmoor was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The house briefly served as the location for the John Singleton Mosby Museum and Education Center, founded by Patricia B. Fitch in 2001. In 2018, the town sold the property back into private ownership. As of 2019, it is under renovations to become a family home. [3] [4]