Vardell Family Cottages Historic District Explained

Vardell Family Cottages Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:222 Grandfather Ave, 137, 187, 209 Chestnut Circle, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.1267°N -81.6783°W
Built:-1900, c. 1903, 1933
Builder:Hartley, Roe; White, Joseph N.
Architecture:Bungalow/craftsman
Added:March 12, 2001
Refnum:01000254

Vardell Family Cottages Historic District are three historic summer homes and national historic district located at Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina. They are Opicherhoka (1899-1900), Hemlock Cottage (c. 1903, 1950s), and The Shoe (1933). Opicherhoka is a picturesque two-story, weatherboarded frame Arts and Crafts-style dwelling. Hemlock Cottage is a small rectangular, plainly-finished, weatherboarded, frame cottage. It consists of a two-story, two-room main block, a one-story shed roof front porch, and a gable roof ell. The Shoe is a small rectangular Arts and Crafts style one-story-with-loft frame cottage.[1]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Davyd Foard Hood. Vardell Family Cottages Historic District . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . January 2000 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-07-01.