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Built
  
1890, 1926

VLR #
  
136-0010

Area
  
8 ha

Added to NRHP
  
9 September 1982

NRHP Reference #
  
82004609

Designated VLR
  
July 20, 1982

Phone
  
+1 540-946-9234

Fairfax Hall

Location
  
Winchester Ave., Waynesboro, Virginia

Address
  
1101 Reservoir St, Waynesboro, VA 22980, USA

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

Similar
  
Blue Ridge Mountains, Waynesboro Heritage Foundation, Grace Estate Winery, Stonewall Jackson Hotel, Courtyard Charlottesville North

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Fairfax Hall, also known as Brandon Hotel or Fairfax Hall School, is a historic building located at Waynesboro, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a 2 1/2-story, very long and rambling resort hotel building in the shingled mode of the Queen Anne style. It has an irregular symmetry with towers at either end of the facade, a one-story porte cochere, a distinctive octagonal belvedere and cupola, and glassed in first story porches. Also on the property is a contributing gymnasium, built in 1926 in the European Renaissance style. It was originally occupied by the Brandon Hotel resort. The Brandon closed in 1913 but the building reopened as a school. In 1920 the school became Fairfax Hall, a junior college and preparatory school for girls. After the school closed in 1975, it was leased by the Virginia Department of Corrections as a training academy but then purchased and reopened as a retirement home.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Noteworthy students of the college and preparatory school for girls are many. Nikki Hornsby is one professional whose life long career was encouraged by the administration and student body, as she represented Fairfax Hall on commercial local TV, at local hospitals, and at many social events within the Waynesboro area in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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References

Fairfax Hall Wikipedia