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Bowman-Zirkle Farm

Bowman–Zirkle Farm
Bowman-Zirkle Farmhouse.jpg
Front of the farmhouse
Bowman–Zirkle Farm is located in Virginia
Bowman–Zirkle Farm
Bowman–Zirkle Farm is located in the US
Bowman–Zirkle Farm
Location 12097 S. Middle Rd., near Edinburg, Virginia
Coordinates 38°47′56″N 78°37′33″W / 38.79889°N 78.62583°W / 38.79889; -78.62583Coordinates: 38°47′56″N 78°37′33″W / 38.79889°N 78.62583°W / 38.79889; -78.62583
Area 285.9 acres (115.7 ha)
Built 1823 (1823), 1879
Architectural style Late Victorian, I house
NRHP reference # 09000642
VLR # 085-0438
Significant dates
Added to NRHP August 21, 2009
Designated VLR June 18, 2009

Bowman–Zirkle Farm, also known as the Isaiah Bowman Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The farmhouse was built in 1879, and is a two-story, three bay, frame I-house dwelling with an integral wing. The remaining contributing resources are a 19th-century log-and-frame tenant house, a summer kitchen (c. 1823), frame meat house (c. 1880), a large bank barn (the Bowman barn, c. 1870); a barn shed, a second bank barn (the Painter barn, c. 1880), a frame granary (c. 1880), a wood-stave silo (c. 1900), and a large, two-story chicken house (c. 1920).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.



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