Steephill, also known as Steep Hill, is a historic home built in and located at

Staunton, Virginia Staunton ( ) is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 25,750. In Virginia, independent cities a ...

. It was added to 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 v ...

in 1984. It also went by the name Peyton Estate, it had been the family home for

John Lewis Peyton John Lewis Peyton (September 15, 1824 – May 21, 1896) was an American lawyer, diplomat, state agent for the Confederate States Army, and an author from Virginia. During the beginning of the American Civil War he moved to Europe, and in 1861 bec ...

and his heirs until 1964.

History

It was built in 1877–1878 in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style, and remodeled in 1926–1927 in the Georgian Revival style. The central portion of the house (the "original" house) is a -story, three-bay, brick structure slightly recessed from the wings. The central section has a standing-seam metal gable roof with three gabled dormers. Flanking the central block are two, two-story wings. an
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/ref> In 1964, the Peyton family heir's sold the family estate to Staunton Military Academy. On December 30, 2019, the Steephill structure suffered a large amount of damage from a 2nd alarm fire.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Gothic Revival architecture in Virginia Georgian Revival architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1927 Houses in Staunton, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Staunton, Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{StauntonVA-NRHP-stub