Green Pastures

Green Pastures may refer to:

Green Pastures (Middleburg, Virginia)

Green Pastures is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Middleburg, Fauquier County, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings built between 1931 and 1947. The include a Colonial Revival style manor house inspired by Mount Vernon, a smokehouse, stable, hostlers' quarters, farmer's cottage, garage and cow shed, chicken house and cow barn designed by New York architect Penrose V. Stout and built between 1931 and 1932; a stone sheep shed, a masonry workshop, a metal machine shed and log cabin built between 1935 and 1947. The frame manor house consist of a 2 ¹⁄₂-story, seven-bay central section flanked by hyphens connected to two-story flanking wings.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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Green Pastures (Austin, Texas)

Green Pastures is a historic Victorian home housing a restaurant of the same name in south Austin, Texas neighborhood of Bouldin Creek. Completed in 1895 by local minister E.W. Herndon, the house sat on 23 acres (93,000 m²) bordering a wooded area to the south. It was home to a number of families over the years. The Green Pastures restaurant opened in the building in 1946, serving a range of comfort food, and was notable for serving to customers of all races, 18 years before other establishments in Austin were desegregated by law.

The building is located at 811 W Live Oak Avenue. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Location for the 1988 comedy Heartbreak Hotel (film) and childhood residence of the activist, author and radio show host John Henry Faulk.

Green Pastures Restaurant was established by Mary Faulk Koock and husband Chester Koock. Mary wrote historical collection of recipes 'The Texas Cookbook' with the help of the author James Beard.