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Sage House

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c. 1928. 119 Rothwell Rd.
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

Residences in company towns clearly reflect the status of their inhabitants. This, the largest of the company's houses, was built for the superintendent of the soapstone factory. The house is a Glen Falls design from the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogue of houses and was the choicest of Dutch colonial design architecture according to the company's 1926 edition. The gambrel roof with flared eaves can lay claim to Dutch colonial influence, but the recessed porch supported by sturdy tapered columns and covered by a shed roof that accommodates second-floor windows is more Arts and Crafts than Dutch.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Walton's Mountain Museum (High and Elementary School)
The Soapstone Factory
William Walker House
Light of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS), Yogaville
Estouteville

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Sage House", [Schuyler, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-NE7.

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, 179-179.

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