A.C. Beatie House Explained

A.C. Beatie House
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:July 5, 2001[1]
Designated Other1 Number:189-0014
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:36.7986°N -81.6844°W
Builder:Pendleton, J. William
Architecture:Queen Anne
Added:July 5, 2001
Refnum:01000697

A.C. Beatie House is a historic home located near Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia. It was built in 1891, and is a two-story, frame Queen Anne style dwelling. It features a cornice with molded gable returns and scroll-sawn profile brackets, a polygonal front bay, and a one-story, three-bay porch with intricately scroll-sawn columns, cornice brackets, and balustrade. Also on the property are the contributing poured concrete dairy, a frame smokehouse constructed above an underground root cellar, a frame shed used to store coal and wood, a shed-roofed chicken coop, a frame garden house / garage, a garage, and a frame machinery shed. Also located on the property are the ruins of Town House, composed of three stone chimneys and brick wall remnants of a summer kitchen.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: A.C. Beatie House. John R Kern. January 2001. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20120927052129/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Smyth/189-0014_A._C._Beatie_House_2001_Final_Nomination.pdf. 2012-09-27. dead. and Accompanying photo