Maple Hall is a historic home located near Lexington in

Rockbridge County, Virginia Rockbridge County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,650. Its county seat is the city of Lexington. Rockbridge County completely surrounds the ...

, USA. The house was built in 1855 and is a two-story, three bay,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style brick dwelling on an

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. It has a hipped roof and rear ell with a gable roof. It features a two-story pedimented front

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. The property includes the contributing two-story brick building which probably dates to the 1820s and a small log outbuilding. The home is currently occupied by a

behavior modification Behavior modification is an early approach that used respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior. Based on methodological behaviorism, overt behavior was modified with consequences, including positive and negative reinforcement continge ...

program named Maple Hall Academy, and formerly housed a restaurant. It was listed on the

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in 1987.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Greek Revival houses in Virginia Houses completed in 1855 Houses in Rockbridge County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Rockbridge County, Virginia 1855 establishments in Virginia {{RockbridgeCountyVA-NRHP-stub