Chestnut Hill (Orange, Virginia) Explained

Chestnut Hill
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:March 19, 2009[1]
Designated Other1 Number:275-0016
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:236 Caroline St., Orange, Virginia
Coordinates:38.2408°N -78.1144°W
Builder:Daley, Alexander
Architecture:Greek Revival, Italianate
Added:June 11, 2009
Refnum:09000417

Chestnut Hill is a historic home located at Orange, Orange County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a combination of the Italianate and Greek Revival styles. A Second Empire style mansard roof was added in 1891. The front facade features a central, one-story, one-bay porch with a balustraded deck above and balustraded decks with the same scroll-sawn balusters across the front. The historic floor plan is a double-pile center-passage plan with two interior chimneys serving four fireplaces on each floor. The house was moved to a new location, 150 feet away from its original site, when threatened with demolition in 2003. Also on the property is a small, one-story, single-bay, 19th-century contributing shed.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Chestnut Hill . Ann L. Miller and Mary Harding Sadler. January 2009. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos