Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 82001827 Designated VLR September 15, 1981 Added to NRHP 24 November 1982 | Built 1893 (1893) VLR # 132-0027 Opened 1893 | |
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Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Blue Ridge Mountains, Woodrow Wilson President, Staunton National Cemetery, Frontier Culture Museum | ||
Oakdene is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1893, and is a large 2 1/2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with an irregular plan. It has a great variety of textures and materials, and features a carved entrance porch, a central turret with a chimney up the middle two sun porches, several tall chimneys with elaborately corbelled caps and decorative brickwork, and a turret with a conical roof. The main roof is of slate and is composed of both hipped and gabled elements. Oakdene was built for Edward Echols, who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1898-1902 and was president of the local National Valley Bank. His father General John Echols died at Oakdene in 1896.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Gospel Hill Historic District.