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Mountain Road Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
83004245

Designated VLR
  
August 16, 1983

Added to NRHP
  
6 October 1983

VLR #
  
230-0078

Area
  
27 ha

Mountain Road Historic District

Location
  
Roughly Mountain Rd. from Mimosa Dr. to Academy St., Halifax, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Late Victorian

Mountain Road Historic District is a national historic district located near Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia. The district includes 22 contributing buildings and consists of two churches, a parish hall, a masonic hall, and a host of private residences dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Masonic Lodge (1828), Methodist Church (1831), St. John's Episcopal Church (1844), Magnolia Hill, Grand Oaks, and St. John's Rectory. Several of the earlier dwellings and St. John's Episcopal Church were designed by Dabney Cosby, Jr., son of the Jeffersonian workman, Dabney Cosby, Sr.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Mountain Road Historic District Wikipedia