Smithfield is a Colonial-style plantation house in Blacksburg, Virginia, built between 1772 and 1774 by Colonel William Preston as his residence and the headquarters of his farm. The L-shaped house has high ceilings and unusually large rooms for a frontier home, including an ornate master bedroom placed between the parlor and dining room to impress guests, and it was the birthplace of two Virginia governors, James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd, from a family that produced four governors and helped found Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Tech and the University of South Carolina. Acquired by Preservation Virginia in 1959, the restored house opened to the public in 1964 and still operates as a museum with an eighteenth-century kitchen garden.
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Smithfield is a plantation house in Blacksburg, Virginia, built from 1772 to 1774 by Col. William Preston to be his residence and the headquarters of his farm.
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Smithfield is a plantation house in Blacksburg, Virginia, built from 1772 to 1774 by Col. William Preston to be his residence and the headquarters of his farm. It was the birthplace of two Virginia Governors: James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd. The house remained a family home until 1959 when the home was donated to the APVA.
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Wikidata item Q7545498, property P131/P17 (location): Montgomery County, United States
Virginia Department of Historic Resources: Smithfield (Blacksburg, Virginia) (Virginia Landmarks Register 150-5017)
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His L-shaped frame residence, built in the mid-1770s on a sprawling plantation, is an expression of architectural sophistication on the edge of the late-18th-century back country.
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