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VLR Listing Date 12/12/2013
NRHP Listing Date 02/10/2014
NRHP Reference Number 13001174
Haines Chapel was completed in 1914 as a small, wood-frame, vernacular house of worship located in a mountainous, sparsely populated area near today’s Blue Ridge Parkway. The chapel’s interior features extensive handcrafted original woodwork including flooring, chair rails, and altar, as well as a brass chandelier with six oil lamps and an antique piano and organ. A cemetery surrounding the chapel and founded in the late 18th century contains an unknown number of graves gravestones, some displaying regional forms of funerary art and symbolic motifs. The earliest known interment is that of Joel Hight in 1793. Regular worship services at the chapel ceased in 1955.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Updated September 5, 2018
