Mountain View

2 mi. S of Chatham on VA 703, Chatham, Virginia. County/parish: Pittsylvania.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 10, 1979. NRIS 79003066.

6 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Mountain View (Chatham, Virginia)

Mountain View is a historic home near Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The house was built about 1840–1842, and is a 2+12-story, Late Federal-style brick dwelling. It is topped by a gable roof and has a double-pile central-hall plan. Also on the property are the contributing original kitchen building, schoolhouse, office, smokehouse, and corn crib. The property also contains remnants of an elaborate 19th-century formal garden, a feature characteristic of the region's finer estates.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682564

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