Langhorne House

117 Broad St., Danville (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Danville.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 01, 2006. NRIS 05001586.

Also known as:

  • Gwynn Apartments
  • VDHR file no. 108-0064

From Wikipedia:

Langhorne House

Langhorne House, also known as the Gwynn Apartments, is an historic late 19th-century house in Danville, Virginia later enlarged and used as an apartment house. Its period of significance is 1922, when Nancy Langhorne Astor, by then known as Lady Astor and the first woman to sit in the British Parliament, came to Danville to visit her birthplace and promote Anglo-American relations.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680389

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