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Gibson Memorial Chapel and Martha Bagby Battle House at Blue Ridge School

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Built
  
1929 (1929)

VLR #
  
039-0041, 039-0042

Address
  
Dyke, VA 22935, USA

Area
  
8,500 m²

Architect
  
Ralph Adams Cram

NRHP Reference #
  
93000349

Designated VLR
  
February 17, 1993

Opened
  
1929

Added to NRHP
  
29 April 1993

Gibson Memorial Chapel and Martha Bagby Battle House at Blue Ridge School

Location
  
VA 627 W side, NW of jct. with VA 810, near Dyke, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Gothic Revival

Similar
  
Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Smoky Mountains, Great Smoky Mountain, Dollywood's Splash Country, Dollywood

Gibson Memorial Chapel and Martha Bagby Battle House at Blue Ridge School is a historic Episcopal chapel and home located on the grounds of Blue Ridge School near Dyke, Greene County, Virginia.

The Gibson Memorial Chapel was designed by noted Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram and built between 1929 and 1932. It is a six-bay, gable-roofed chapel is built on a modified cruciform plan. The chapel is built entirely of uncut and uncoursed native fieldstone and is executed in the Gothic Revival style. It is named after Robert Atkinson Gibson (1846-1919), the sixth Episcopal Bishop of Virginia.

The Martha Bagby Battle House, also known as the Headmaster's House, was completed in 1934. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, hipped-roof center section extended by protruding one- and two-story bays on all sides. The house is constructed of uncut and uncoursed native fieldstone and is in the English Gothic style.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

References

Gibson Memorial Chapel and Martha Bagby Battle House at Blue Ridge School Wikipedia