title: Elk Hill (Forest, Virginia)
text: # Elk Hill (Forest, Virginia)
  
  Elk Hill is a historic plantation house located near Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built about 1797, and consists of a 2+1⁄2-story, three bay brick central section with flanking wings in the Federal style. It has a slate gable roof and a front porch added in 1928, when restored by the architect Preston Craighill. The main block has twin brick exterior chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing small, handsome brick office, a weatherboarded cook's house and storeroom, a lattice wellhouse, and icehouse.
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
  
  