A.C. Beatie House

A.C. Beatie House
Location 249 W. Lee Hwy., near Chilhowie, Virginia
Area 18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built 1891 (1891)
Built by Pendleton, J. William
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 01000697[1]
VLR # 189-0014
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 5, 2001
Designated VLR July 5, 2001[2]

A.C. Beatie House is a historic home located near Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia. It was built in 1891, and is a two-story, frame Queen Anne style dwelling. It features a cornice with molded gable returns and scroll-sawn profile brackets, a polygonal front bay, and a one-story, three-bay porch with intricately scroll-sawn columns, cornice brackets, and balustrade. Also on the property are the contributing poured concrete dairy, a frame smokehouse constructed above an underground root cellar, a frame shed used to store coal and wood, a shed-roofed chicken coop, a frame garden house / garage, a garage, and a frame machinery shed. Also located on the property are the ruins of Town House, composed of three stone chimneys and brick wall remnants of a summer kitchen.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (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 2013-03-12.
  3. John R Kern (January 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: A.C. Beatie House" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


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