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Mountain View (Chatham, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1840 (1840)-1842

NRHP Reference #
  
79003066

Designated VLR
  
June 19, 1979

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Built by
  
Dejarnett, James

VLR #
  
071-0025

Area
  
18 ha

Added to NRHP
  
10 September 1979

Mountain View (Chatham, Virginia)

Location
  
2 mi. S of Chatham on VA 703, near Chatham, Virginia

Mountain View is a historic home located near Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The house was built about 1840-1842, and is a 2 1/2-story, Late Federal style brick dwelling. It is topped by a gable roof and has a double-pile, central-hall plan. Also on the property are the contributing original kitchen building, schoolhouse, office, smokehouse, and corn crib. The property also contains remnants of an elaborate 19th-century formal garden, a feature characteristic of the region's finer estates.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Mountain View (Chatham, Virginia) Wikipedia