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Historic Henry Hotel

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1922, Alex B. Mahood; 1937 enlarged, J. Coates Carter. 52 E. Church St.

Two former hotels on E. Church Street speak to the significance of Martinsville as a commercial center in the early twentieth century. The four-story, brick-veneered Henry Hotel features a shallow brick belt course, a decorative entablature of concrete with red brick squares in place of metopes, and a flat roof. Its first story is altered, but the entrance on the side is intact. The hotel has been converted for housing. At 6 E. Church, the Jefferson Hotel (1927, Heard and Chesterman) is a three-story, red brick building with a block-modillion cornice. Like many buildings on this street it has a much-altered storefront but intact upper stories.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Commercial Building (Peoples Bank)
Commercial Building (First National Bank)
U.S. Post Office, Central Station
Historic Henry County Courthouse
Hairston Memorial Building (Knights of Pythias Lodge)

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Historic Henry Hotel", [Martinsville, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-HR9.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 230-230.

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