Sweet Chalybeate Springs

Sweet Chalybeate Springs
Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Main Building, HABS Photo, October 1974
Sweet Chalybeate Springs is located in Virginia
Sweet Chalybeate Springs
Sweet Chalybeate Springs is located in the United States
Sweet Chalybeate Springs
LocationSouth of Earlhurst on VA 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Virginia
Coordinates37°38′38″N 80°14′32″W / 37.64389°N 80.24222°W / 37.64389; -80.24222
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
Builtc. 1850 (1850)
NRHP reference No.74002103[1]
VLR No.003-0006, 003-0007
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 21, 1974
Designated VLROctober 16, 1973[2]

Sweet Chalybeate Springs, also known as the Red Sweet Springs, Sweet Chalybeate Hotel and Sweet Chalybeate Springs Lodge, is a historic resort hotel complex located at Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, Virginia. It dates to the 1850s, and consists of a main building, guest ranges, and cottages all fronted with two-level porches. There are a total of eight contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main building is a gable roof, weatherboarded, frame structure 12 bays long and 2 bays deep. The resort developed around springs flowing undisturbed from the bottom of a small rock bluff. Sweet Chalybeate suffered decline and finally closed its doors in 1918.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (October 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sweet Chalybeate Springs" (PDF). and Accompanying photo

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