Longdale Furnace, Virginia
Longdale Furnace Historic District | |
![]() House on State Route 269 | |
Location | Roughly, along Longdale Furnace Rd., Iron Ore Ln., Church Rd. and Conner Ln., near Clifton Forge, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°48′33″N 79°41′04″W / 37.80917°N 79.68444°W |
Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
Built | 1827 |
Architectural style | Queen Anne, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 95000898[1] |
VLR No. | 003-0338 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | August 3, 1995 |
Designated VLR | April 28, 1995[2] |
Longdale Furnace is an unincorporated community located east of Clifton Forge in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.
Much of the community was designated a national historic district and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1] The district encompasses 27 contributing buildings, eight contributing sites and three contributing structures historically associated with the Longdale Iron Company foundries' operations and personnel. It includes the original stone furnace stack (1827), two-story Longdale Iron Company Office (late-1820s), Longdale Iron Company Laboratory, two tall cylindrical brick chimneys, brick machine shop, Firmstone-Johnson House (1870s–1880s), the Queen Anne-style Assistant Manager's House (1870s–1880s), and the Company Doctor's Office.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ^ Leslie A. Giles (December 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Longdale Furnace Historic District" (PDF). Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources., Accompanying two photos and Accompanying map
External links
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- Unincorporated communities in Alleghany County, Virginia
- Historic districts in Alleghany County, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Alleghany County, Virginia
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- 1827 establishments in Virginia
- Unincorporated communities in Virginia
- Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, geography stubs
- Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs