Built 1928 (1928) VLR # 114-0114 Opened 1928 Phone +1 757-637-7200 Added to NRHP 21 March 2007 | NRHP Reference # 07000190 Designated NHLDCP October 15, 1966 Area 2 ha Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture Architect Marcellus E. Wright Sr. | |
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Address 2 Fenwick Rd, Hampton, VA 23651, USA Similar Fort Monroe, Casemate Museum of Fort Monr, Ferry Plantation House, Edgewood, Thoroughgood House Profiles | ||
The chamberlin waterfront senior living community
The Chamberlin is a retirement community and historic hotel in Hampton, Virginia, overlooking Hampton Roads at Old Point Comfort. It was formerly known as the Chamberlin Hotel. The nine-story building sits on historic Fort Monroe and overlooks Fort Wool. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it has been renovated from its former life as a hotel into a luxury retirement community for people aged 55 and up.
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The second floor has retained the hotel atmosphere while the rest of the floors have been renovated and turned into one- and two-bedroom apartments. A few apartments are used as guest quarters for visiting relatives of residents.
The current building was built in 1928 under the direction of Marcellus E. Wright Sr., with Warren and Wetmore consulting. It replaced an earlier hotel designed by Washington, D.C., architects John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz and completed in 1896, which had in turn replaced the Hygeia. The building originally had two large cupolas on its roof but these were removed during World War II because they were visible from out in the ocean beyond the Virginia Capes and it was feared that they could potentially aid a hostile German warship cruising offshore in targeting Fort Monroe. They were never replaced after the war.