West View Schoolhouse

West View Schoolhouse
Location VA 774 and 773, Weyers Cave, Virginia
Coordinates 38°16′2″N 78°54′42″W / 38.26722°N 78.91167°W / 38.26722; -78.91167Coordinates: 38°16′2″N 78°54′42″W / 38.26722°N 78.91167°W / 38.26722; -78.91167
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built c. 1875 (1875), c. 1890
MPS Public Schools in Augusta County Virginia 1870-1940 TR
NRHP Reference # 85000397[1]
VLR # 007-0426
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 27, 1985
Designated VLR December 11, 1984[2]

West View Schoolhouse is a historic public school building located at Weyers Cave, Augusta County, Virginia. It is a two-room schoolhouse with the first room built about 1875, and the second added by 1890. It is of frame construction with a limestone and brick foundation. The interior is considered the least altered and best preserved of all the surviving one- and two-room schools in Augusta County.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 05-12-2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. Ann McCleary (September 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: West View Schoolhouse" (PDF). and Accompanying photo


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