Sweet Chalybeate Springs
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Sweet Chalybeate Springs | |
.jpg) Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Main Building, HABS Photo, October 1974 | |
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| Location | South of Earlhurst on VA 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°38′38″N 80°14′32″W / 37.64389°N 80.24222°W |
| Area | 18 acres (7.3 ha) |
| Built | c. 1850 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74002103[1] |
| VLR No. | 003-0006, 003-0007 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 21, 1974 |
| Designated VLR | October 16, 1973[2] |
Sweet Chalybeate Springs, also known as the Red Sweet Springs, Sweet Chalybeate Hotel and Sweet Chalybeate Springs Lodge, is a historic resort hotel complex located at Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, Virginia. It dates to the 1850s, and consists of a main building, guest ranges, and cottages all fronted with two-level porches. There are a total of eight contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main building is a gable roof, weatherboarded, frame structure 12 bays long and 2 bays deep. The resort developed around springs flowing undisturbed from the bottom of a small rock bluff. Sweet Chalybeate suffered decline and finally closed its doors in 1918.[3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
