Wood Hall (Callaghan, Virginia)

Wood Hall
Location VA 600, Callaghan, Virginia
Coordinates 37°48′58″N 80°4′21″W / 37.81611°N 80.07250°W / 37.81611; -80.07250Coordinates: 37°48′58″N 80°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]

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

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


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