What is "locust grove"

Locust Grove is the name of a number of places in the United States of America:

Locust Grove is a National Historic Landmark estate located on US 9 in the Town of Poughkeepsie, New York. The 180-acre park-like estate includes homes, a carriage house, ice house, trails, a flower garden, and vegetable garden, and it overlooks the Hudson River from a bluff. The property includes a home designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis for Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. An Italianate style mansion, it was completed in 1851.

The estate is open to the public, tours are offered, and the site is used for weddings and parties. It includes a museum, nature preserve, antique exhibits, and a gallery showing artworks.

Locust Grove is a historic home located on a tract. at Lynchburg, Virginia. It is a five-bay, double-pile, central-passage-plan. -story, timberframe, four end chimney Federal-style house. It was begun about 1810 for Edmund Cobbs, Jr. It was enlarged significantly between 1825 and 1830 to its present central-passage plan. The house was extensively renovated in 1932, at which time a garage, barn, guest house, and tenant house, were erected.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Locust Grove, also known as Beech Neck, is a historic home located at La Plata, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is a two story, three bay Federal style frame house, with a fine view of the Port Tobacco Valley. The original section of the house was built prior to 1750, with a significant expansion occurring about 1825.

Locust Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Locust Grove is a historic house located between Dillwyn and Buckingham, Virginia, constructed before 1794. It is remembered for its connection to the Revolutionary soldier Peter Francisco, and as the Peter Francisco House it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.

Locust Grove, also known as the Haldeman Mansion, is a historic home located at Conoy Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1782, and is a large, two-story, four-bay by two-bay stone dwelling overlooking the Susquehanna River. It has a massive central chimney Also on the property is a rectangular, two-story stone building with a hipped gable roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Locust Grove is a historic home located near Amicus, Greene County, Virginia. It was built about 1798, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with a one-story wing. The main section has a metal-sheathed gable roof and exterior gable-end brick chimneys.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Locust Grove, also known as the Old Jacob Brubaker House is a historic house in rural Page County, Virginia. It is located about southeast of Luray, at 6601 Ida Road ( Virginia State Route 269). It is set on the south side of the road, just west of Chub Run. It is a 2-1/2 story brick house, with a gable roof, and a single-story side ell. Built about 1830, it is a good local example of Federal period style, retaining original interior floors, woodwork, and fireplace mantels.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

Locust Grove, also known as the Goodwin Farm, is a historic home located at Rapidan, Culpeper County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1730, and expanded in at least four major building campaigns over the next half-century. It had its present configuration by 1840. The house is a 1 1/2-story, four bay, log and frame structure featuring a central chimney, two-room plan main block flanked by early gable-end lean-tos and rear additions. It has a steep gable roof with modern dormers. It was renovated in the 1970s. Also on the property is a contributing mid-19th century smokehouse.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Locust Grove is a historic home located at Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The house was built in two phases, one before 1817 and another in 1837. The original section is a single-pile, two-story structure built of fieldstone with a side gable roof in the Federal style. Attached to it is the later 2 1/2-story, three-bay, double-pile, fieldstone addition. The interior features Federal and Greek Revival style decorative details. Also on the property are the contributing stone spring house, a frame barn, a garage, a stone watering trough, and a stone chimney.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Locust Grove, also known as the Foster House, is a historic plantation house located at Ingleside, Franklin County, North Carolina. It was built about 1790, and is a two-story, five bay, Georgian style frame dwelling with a high gable roof. It has a rear ell to form a "T"-shaped plan. From 1797 to 1809, it was owned by noted American politician John Haywood (1754-1827), who was the longest-serving North Carolina State Treasurer.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.