Rockbridge Alum Springs Historic District

Rockbridge Alum Springs Historic District
Location Address Restricted, near California, Virginia
Area 40 acres (16 ha)
Built 1853 (1853)
Architectural style Greek Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 88003204[1]
VLR # 081-0086
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 19, 1989
Designated VLR April 21, 1987[2]

Rockbridge Alum Springs Historic District, also known as Jordan Alum Springs, is a historic 19th-century resort complex and national historic district near California, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings, 10 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures dating primarily to the 1850s, and associated with the operations of the Rockbridge Alum Springs, a popular 19th- and early-20th century mountain resort. The buildings are the barroom, store/post office, Montgomery Hall, the Gothic Building, the Alum Springs Pavilion, two cottages of Baltimore Row, the Ladies Hotel, four cottages of Kentucky Row, Jordan's House, a servant's quarters, a slave quarters, and a storehouse. The remaining structures are a well and the stone spring chambers and gazebo and bandstand of the Jordan Alum Springs. The sites are primarily those of demolished cottages. It is one of the best-preserved antebellum springs resort complexes in Virginia. The resort remained in operation until 1941.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (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 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Division of Historic Landmarks Staff (1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rockbridge Alum Springs Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map


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