Sweet Chalybeate Springs

Sweet Chalybeate Springs
Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Main Building, HABS Photo, October 1974
Location South of Earlhurst on VA 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Virginia
Coordinates 37°38′38″N 80°14′32″W / 37.64389°N 80.24222°WCoordinates: 37°38′38″N 80°14′32″W / 37.64389°N 80.24222°W
Area 18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built c. 1850
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 74002103[1]
VLR # 003-0006, 003-0007
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 21, 1974
Designated VLR October 16, 1973[2]

Sweet Chalybeate Springs, also known as the Red Sweet Springs, Sweet Chalybeate Hotel and Sweet Chalybeate Springs Lodge, is a historic resort hotel complex located at Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, Virginia. It dates to the 1850s, and consists of a main building, guest ranges, and cottages all fronted with two-level porches. There are a total of eight contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main building is a gable roof, weatherboarded, frame structure 12 bays long and 2 bays deep. The resort developed around springs flowing undisturbed from the bottom of a small rock bluff. Sweet Chalybeate suffered decline and finally closed its doors in 1918.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 05-12-2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ↑ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (October 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sweet Chalybeate Springs". and Accompanying photo

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