File:The Castle, Lexington, VA - history plaque.jpg

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English: Plaque describing the history of The Castle, at 6 South Randolph Street, Lexington, Virginia.

This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72001506.
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"THE CASTLE"

   The "Castle" was built of limestone, and as in the case of several other stone
buildings in Rockbridge County, the term "Castle" is included in the name
of the buildings. The Northern two-thirds of the "Castle" was built shortly
after the town of Lexington, Virgina, was chartered in 1778. The Southern
one-third was built somewhat later.
   The "Castle" as originally built, had three rooms on each floor. The rooms
were not connected in any way, and each was entered from without.
   The "Castle" was originally used for lawyers offices. The old present
lawyers office building, on the East side of the Rockbridge Court House Yard,
is a replica. In Flemish-bond brick of the plan of the original "Castle" building.
   Many students lived in the "Castle", and some became quite prominent.
   Prof. Hale Houston, some fifteen years before his death, remodelled the
"Castle", and made it into two apartments.
   At his death in 1945, Prof. Houston left the "Castle" to the Rockbridge
Historical Society, where the meetings of the Society are to be held, and
where the collected historical material is to be preserved.

It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle not in decay."

— Bacon
Camera location37° 47′ 02.69″ N, 79° 26′ 29.01″ W  Heading=138.83279742765° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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