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Vardell Family Cottages Historic District

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Architectural style
  
Bungalow/craftsman

Area
  
2 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
01000254

Added to NRHP
  
12 March 2001

Vardell Family Cottages Historic District

Location
  
222 Grandfather Ave, 137, 187, 209 Chestnut Circle, Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Built
  
1899 (1899)-1900, c. 1903, 1933

Built by
  
Hartley, Roe; White, Joseph N.

Vardell family cottages historic district top 5 facts


Vardell Family Cottages Historic District are three historic summer homes and national historic district located at Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina. They are Opicherhoka (1899-1900), Hemlock Cottage (c. 1903, 1950s), and The Shoe (1933). Opicherhoka is a picturesque two-story, weatherboarded frame Arts and Crafts-style dwelling. Hemlock Cottage is a small rectangular, plainly-finished, weatherboarded, frame cottage. It consists of a two-story, two-room main block, a one-story shed roof front porch, and a gable roof ell. The Shoe is a small rectangular Arts and Crafts style one-story-with-loft frame cottage.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

Vardell Family Cottages Historic District Wikipedia