Sonner Hall, also known as "Main Building" and Sonner-Payne Hall, is a historic building located at
Randolph-Macon Academy
Randolph-Macon Academy (R-MA) is a coeducational private boarding school with an elite Air Force JROTC component. R-MA serves students in grades 6-12 and maintains 100% college acceptance rate every year with each class averaging over $14 million ...
in
Front Royal
Front Royal is the only incorporated town in Warren County, Virginia, United States. The population was 15,011 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Warren County.
History
The entire Shenandoah Valley including the area to become ...
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Warren County, Virginia
Warren County is a U.S. county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The 2020 census places Warren County within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 40,727. The county seat is ...
. It was built in 1927, to replace the original academy building of 1892. It is a 3 1/2-story, 19 bay,
Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...
style brick building. The front facade features a tetrastyle pedimented portico with Greek
Ionic order columns. It has a slate-covered gambrel roof topped by a ribbed dome with a
balustrade and lantern.
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/ref> In 1995, a fire destroyed the third and fourth floors of Sonner-Payne Hall. Sonner-Payne Hall was subsequently gutted and rebuilt with improvements.
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 1987.[
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References
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
School buildings completed in 1927
Schools in Warren County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, Virginia
Front Royal, Virginia
1927 establishments in Virginia
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