Wood Hall (Callaghan, Virginia)

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Wood Hall

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Location VA 600, Callaghan, Virginia
Coordinates 37°48′58″N80°4′21″W / 37.81611°N 80.07250°W / 37.81611; -80.07250 Coordinates: 37°48′58″N80°4′21″W / 37.81611°N 80.07250°W / 37.81611; -80.07250
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built 1874 (1874)
Architectural style Gothic Revival
NRHP reference # 82004667 [1]
VLR # 003-0008
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 26, 1982
Designated VLR January 20, 1981 [2]

Wood Hall, also known as Milton Hall and Oak Hall, is a historic home located at Callaghan, Alleghany County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a double-pile, two-story, brick house on a stuccoed brick foundation in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story, gable roof entrance tower with clasping buttresses and pointed-arch openings. Also on the property is a former caretaker's cottage. It was built for William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton, whose wife, Lady Laura Milton, brought him from Britain to Alleghany County for his health. [3]

Callaghan is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 348.

Alleghany County, Virginia county in Virginia, United States

Alleghany County is an American county located on the far western edge of Commonwealth of Virginia. It is bordered by the Allegheny Mountains, from which the county derives its name, and it is the northernmost part of the Roanoke Region. The county seat is Covington.

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wood Hall" (PDF). and Accompanying photo