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Peter Paul House is a historic home located near
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,
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. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, two bay, stuccoed Rhenish Plan log dwelling. It has a gable roof and rubble
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chimney. A three bay brick ell was added about 1829. It is one of a small group of Continental farmhouses surviving as relics of the heavy Swiss and German settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. an
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/ref> 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 ...
in 1979.


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German-American culture in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1810 Houses in Rockingham County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, Virginia Swiss-American culture in Virginia {{RockinghamCountyVA-NRHP-stub