Fairfax Hall

{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Fairfax Hall | nrhp_type = | designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register | designated_other1_date = July 20, 1982<ref name=register>{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=19 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archive-date=21 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> | designated_other1_number = 136-0010 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | image = Fairfax Hall-4x6-300ppi.jpg | caption = | location = Winchester Ave., Waynesboro, Virginia | coordinates = {{coord|38|4|13|N|78|52|14|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Virginia#USA | built = 1890, 1926 | architect = Poindexter, William | architecture = Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Queen Anne, European Renaissance | added = September 9, 1982 | area = {{convert|20|acre}} | refnum = 82004609<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }} thumb|1891 map of Waynesboro looking westward with the "Iron Cross" rail junction and Basic City area factories at the bottom and downtown toward the center. An inset image at the top shows the then-luxurious and new Hotel Brunswick, now called Fairfax Hall. The map caption says the population grew from 1,000 to 2,500 from 1890 to 1891. '''Fairfax Hall''', previously known as '''Brandon Hotel''' (1890-1913), '''Brandon Institute''' (1913-1920), and '''Fairfax Hall Junior College''' or '''Fairfax Hall School''' (Junior College program discontinued in 1956)<ref>{{cite book |author1=U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |title=Education Directory |date=1956 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=170 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Education_Directory/ljjOeiIOBlEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&kptab=overview |access-date=14 December 2024}}</ref> (1920-1975),<ref>{{cite web |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form {{!}} Fairfax Hall |url=https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/136-0010_Fairfax_Hall_1982_Final_Nomination.pdf |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources |date=July 20, 1982}}</ref> is a historic building located at Waynesboro, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a {{frac|2|1|2}}-story, very long and rambling resort hotel building in the shingled mode of the Queen Anne style. It has an irregular symmetry with towers at either end of the facade, a one-story porte cochere, a distinctive octagonal belvedere and cupola, and glassed in first story porches. Also on the property is a contributing gymnasium, built in 1926 in the European Renaissance style. It was originally occupied by the Brandon Hotel resort. The Brandon closed in 1913 but the building reopened as a school. In 1920 the school became Fairfax Hall, a junior college and preparatory school for girls. After the school closed in 1975, it was leased by the Virginia Department of Corrections as a training academy but then purchased and reopened as a retirement home.<ref name=VAnom>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Waynesboro/136-0010%20-%20Fairfax%20Hall%20-%20Final%20Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fairfax Hall |author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission staff|date=July 1982|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Waynesboro/FairfaxHall_photo.htm ''Accompanying photo'']</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.<ref name=nris/>

Former students of the college and preparatory school for girls include film star Martha Hyer, musician Nikki Hornsby, politician Julia Brownley, and DAR President-General Presley Merritt Wagoner.

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==External links== *[https://www.fairfaxhall.net/ Fairfax Hall] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100724130436/http://www.fairfaxhall.com/schoolhistory.html Fairfax Hall school history] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080908042201/http://www.fairfaxhall.net/ourhistory.html Fairfax Hall our history]

Category:Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Category:Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Category:Renaissance Revival architecture in Virginia Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1890 Category:Buildings and structures in Waynesboro, Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Waynesboro, Virginia