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No visit to Fairfax City is complete without a visit to Historic Blenheim and the Civil War Interpretive Center. The site is famous for its Federal soldier signatures, pictographs, and thoughts preserved on the attic and house walls of this Greek-Revival-style brick house.
Historic Blenheim is a c. 1859 brick farm house designed in the Greek Revival style and located in City of Fairfax, Virginia. During the American Civil War, Union soldiers were often encamped on the grounds surrounding the house and utilized it as part of a reserve hospital system.
- c. 1859
- 151-5003
- December 6, 2000
- 3610 Old Lee Hwy, Fairfax, Virginia
Historic Blenheim is a c. 1859 central-hall plan Greek Revival-style brick farmhouse built by Albert Willcoxon just prior to the Civil War. Occupied by the Union army from March 1862 to late 1863, the house is significant for the signatures, pictographs, games and thoughts left throughout the house by the soldiers.
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Historic Blenheim is a c.1859 central hall Greek Revival style brick farmhouse built by Albert Willcoxon just prior to the Civil War (1861 – 1865). It is nationally significant for the voluminous quantity and quality of examples of Civil War graffiti.
Exhibits, and the daily guided tour of the Historic Blnehim house, focus on the impact of war in the area, the family, and enslaved residents of Blenheim, and the Union soldiers that left their mark as they traveled through Fairfax Courthouse.
Feb 26, 2021 · In 1862, when the Union Army marched iNTO Fairfax and commandeered what is now known as Historic Blenheim—a farmhouse owned at the time by secessionists—the soldiers left their mark. Literally.
