Mountain Hall is a historic home and farm complex located near
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
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Nottoway County, Virginia
Nottoway County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,642. Its county seat is Nottoway. It is situated south of the James River, thus making it a part of the Southside Virginia Regio ...
. The house was built about 1797, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick-and-frame, nearly square dwelling with a pyramidal roof. It has a side-hall plan and features four tall and narrow brick chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing L-shaped frame tenant house, two small cemeteries, and one additional grave. It was the home of physician and statesman Dr.
James Jones (1772–1848), who died at Mountain Hall and is buried on the property.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2002.[
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Neoclassical architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1797
Houses in Nottoway County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Nottoway County, Virginia
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