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Dairy barn restoration recognized by preservation association
WARM SPRINGS- Last week the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities presented Homestead Preserve the 2008 Outstanding Adaptive Use Award for its $6 million restoration and renovation of the Old Dairy Community Center in Warm Springs.
The dairy, which is both a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, consists of seven historic agricultural structures dating to the late 1920s. Those structures include a three-story main barn, the herdsman's cottage, as well as two milking barns, calf barn, milk house and bull barn. Built in 1928, the dairy served The Homestead for more than 50 years, supplying the resort's dairy and beef needs.
APVA's public programs manager, Terry Graham, says Homestead Preserve's Old Dairy restoration was particularly impressive to the awards committee, which is made up of architects as well as professionals working in the field of historic preservation, because of its previous use as an agricultural complex. "We are so concerned about rural historic districts and sites," Graham says.
Graham further points to Old Dairy's multipurpose use as a recreational and community center for Homestead Preserve owners, as an event space for the Bath County community at large and as office space for the Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust and Preserve community association as further reason for the APVA's selection.
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