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James Alexander House (also known as the Alexander-Long House) is a historic house located near Spottswood,
Augusta County, Virginia Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county ...
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Description and history

It was built in 1827, and is a two-story, four bay, double-pile, hall-and-parlor plan, banked brick dwelling with a gable roof. It features four exterior end chimneys and a four-bay neocolonial porch added around the turn of the 20th century. The interior features
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style woodwork. Also on the property are a contributing two-level
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, frame barn, smokehouse, and livestock houses. and http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Augusta/James_Alex_House_photo.htm ''Accompanying photo''] It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on September 16, 1982.


References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1827 Houses in Augusta County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia 1827 establishments in Virginia {{AugustaCountyVA-NRHP-stub