Chapel Hill is a historic home located near
Mint Spring,
Augusta County, Virginia
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. It was built about 1834, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick
I-house
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dwelling in the
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style. The front facade features a central pedimented pavilion with an elliptical fanlight over the doorway and another in the pediment. The interior features French scenic wallpaper,
graining
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and
marbleizing
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. Also on the property are the contributing frame office with some Gothic details, a pyramidal-roofed frame
smokehouse
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. , and a gable-roofed dairy.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1978.[
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1834
Houses in Augusta County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia
1834 establishments in Virginia
Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
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