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The Rose Terrace building is a historic building on the
Mary Baldwin University Mary Baldwin University (MBU, formerly Mary Baldwin College) is a private university in Staunton, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1842 as "Augusta Female Seminary". Today, Mary Baldwin University is home to the Mary Baldwin College fo ...
campus in
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 built about 1875, and is a -story, three-bay, L-shaped, brick
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...
-style building. It has a hipped roof and six handsome, tall chimneys with elaborately corbelled caps. Also on the property is a contributing small two-story outbuilding known as "Little House." an
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/ref> Rose Terrace was originally a single family residence, then housed Augusta Sanitarium from 1910 to 1919. The building was purchased by Mary Baldwin College in 1919. It was once used as the college president's home, and also served as a student dormitory. The building currently houses the offices of the Shakespeare & Performance graduate program. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
(NRHP) in 1979.


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, and C. W. Miller House, are other NRHP-listed building on the campus.


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University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Staunton, Virginia Houses completed in 1875 Mary Baldwin University Buildings and structures in Staunton, Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{StauntonVA-NRHP-stub