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Three Hills is a historic home located near
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Three Hills is a historic home located near Warm Springs Warm Springs may refer to:
*Warm Springs Apache, a subdivision of the Chiricahua Apache
*Warm Springs, California, in Riverside County
*Warm Springs, Fremont, California
**Warm Springs Elementary School, elementary school in Fremont, California
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, Bath County, Virginia
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. It was built in 1913, and is a -story, frame and stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and ...
Italian Renaissance
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style dwelling. It consists of a central block with flanking two-story wings and rear additions. The house has a 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 arch ...
style interior. The front facade features a single-story, flat-roofed 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 cu ...
. Also on the property are the contributing small formal boxwood garden, three frame and stucco, one-story cottages, and a stone and brick freestanding chimney. Three Hills was built by American novelist and women's rights advocate Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 – May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels. Joh ...
(1870-1936), who lived and operated an inn there until her death. J. Ambler Johnston, a young architect, distant relative of the writer and one of the founding partners of the Carneal and Johnston architectural firm (recently merged with Ballou Justice Upton), designed the house.
Another home of Johnston's listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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is Linden Row in Richmond. an''Accompanying six photos''
/ref> It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
References
Additional Reading
"Three Hills: The Home of Mary Johnston." ''Virginia Suffrage News'', November 1, 1914. https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=VSN19141101&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------