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A regional expression of the Italianate style, Shadow Lawn evolved in tandem with the town’s transformation from the crossroads village of Christiansville into a thriving colony of northern immigrants after the Civil War, renamed Chase City. The house began ca. 1834 as the home of Richard Puryear, a substantial landowner and proprietor of a local tavern. An extensive remodeling of the house was undertaken in 1869-70 for George Endly, the co-founder of Chase City, who moved here from Pennsylvania in 1868. The project is attributed to Jacob W. Holt, a Virginia-born architect-builder who worked in both North Carolina and Virginia, creating a distinctive body of structures in a boldly ornamented Italianate style. In 1902 Shadow Lawn became part of the Mecklenburg Mineral Springs Hotel complex. The hotel burned in 1909. Shadow Lawn is now a private residence.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
