Mount Pleasant is a historic home located near Strasburg,

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. It was built in 1812, and is a -story, five bay, brick

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style dwelling. The four-bay, one-story southeastern wing, constructed of dressed-rubble

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, was probably built about 1790. It was renovated in the 1930s and in 1979. Also on the property are the contributing brick, pyramidal-roofed smokehouse (c. 1812); a large, frame,

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(c. 1890–1900); a frame wagon shed/

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(c. 1920); a frame tenant house and garage (c. 1920); an old well, no longer in use, with a circular stone wall and gable-roofed frame superstructure (c. 1920); a substantial, brick, gable-roofed, one-story garage (c. 1930); and the original road configuration from about 1790. an
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/ref> It was listed on the

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in 2011.

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* Federal architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1812 Houses in Shenandoah County, Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Shenandoah County, Virginia {{ShenandoahCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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