Orange
The Inn at Willow Grove
Joseph Clark's manor house, dated by the inn to 1778 and by the state register to the late 18th century, a few minutes from Montpelier; 25 rooms.
- Built
- c. 1778 (inn's claim)The inn calls its manor house 'circa-1778'; DHR says the original frame house was built in the late 18th century for Joseph Clark and enlarged in 1848 with a brick wing and Tuscan portico.
- Style
- Jeffersonian Classical Revival
- Type
- Inn
- Rooms
- 25
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Historic Hotels of America member
The story
The original frame residence was built in the late 18th century for Joseph Clark. In 1848 his son William, who had inherited the farm in 1839, added a brick wing and a unifying Tuscan portico with Jeffersonian Chinese-lattice railings. The house was later the homestead of the Shackelford family and was converted, with its outbuildings, into a country inn by the end of the 20th century. It is a few minutes from James Madison’s Montpelier.
Good to know
- Address: 14079 Stones Throw Drive, Orange, VA 22960
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.