Blue Ridge Farm (Upperville, Virginia)

The property includes a two-story, rubble stone Federal era farmhouse known as Fountain Hill House (c. 1791) and its associated outbuildings and two contributing sites; a one-story Colonial Revival-style stone house known as Blue Ridge Farmhouse (1935) and its associated outbuildings, and formal landscape features around it; two tenant houses (Crawford House and Byington House, c. 1903); and several buildings associated with the farm's horse breeding industry, including three large broodmare stables (c. 1903); two stallion stables (stud barns, c. 1913); training stables, and an implement shed.

The property was purchased by Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson in 1928.^[3] The Blue Ridge Farmhouse was designed for him by Washington, D.C. architect Waddy B. Wood.

Among Grayson's successful horses, Fluvanna was voted the retrospective American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. In 1938, Grayson's last year, he bred the mare On Hand to Kentucky Derby winner Brokers Tip to produce the colt Market Wise, which went on to become a multiple stakes winner and the 1943 U.S. Co-champion Handicap Horse.

As of 2006 members of the Grayson family still owned the property.^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.^[1]