Chippokes Plantation State Park

Mansion Area


Conference Shelter


The most recent group of farm buildings, all erected in the 1950s occupies the farm lot behind the Blount House (cabin 5) about 175 yards south of the mansion.  The equipment shed and machine shop, the largest 0f the structures, is a pole-supp0rted building with two attached vehicle-storage bays at its east end.  It was heavily remodeled in the early 1980s to serve as a picnic area and conference center. To the east of this building stands the hay barn, a two-level rectangular structure with symmetrical three-bay longitudinal front. This is now used for general non-farm storage.  Immediately southwest of it stand three other structures: a small metal-clad livestock shed; a wooden privy, and a narrow, 100-foot-long cattle shelter with built-in feed racks.