Sweet Chalybeate Springs

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Sweet Chalybeate Springs | nrhp_type = | designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register | designated_other1_date = October 16, 1973<ref name="VLR list">{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|accessdate=2013-05-12}}</ref> | designated_other1_number = 003-0006, 003-0007 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | image = Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Main Building, State Route 311, Sweet Chalybeate (Alleghany County, Virginia).jpg | caption = Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Main Building, HABS Photo, October 1974 | location = South of Earlhurst on VA 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Virginia | coordinates = {{coord|37|38|38|N|80|14|32|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Virginia#USA | built = c. {{Start date|1850}} | added = January 21, 1974 | area = {{convert|18|acre}} | refnum = 74002103<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} '''Sweet Chalybeate Springs''', also known as the Red Sweet Springs, Sweet Chalybeate Hotel and Sweet Chalybeate Springs Lodge, is a historic resort hotel complex located at Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, Virginia. It dates to the 1850s, and consists of a main building, guest ranges, and cottages all fronted with two-level porches. There are a total of eight contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main building is a gable roof, weatherboarded, frame structure 12 bays long and 2 bays deep. The resort developed around springs flowing undisturbed from the bottom of a small rock bluff. Sweet Chalybeate suffered decline and finally closed its doors in 1918.<ref name=VAnom>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Alleghany/003-0006_Sweet_Chalybeate_Springs_1974_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Sweet Chalybeate Springs|author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff|date=October 1973}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Alleghany/Sweet_Chalybeate_Hotel_photo.htm ''Accompanying photo'']</ref>

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.<ref name=nris/>

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==External links== {{commonscat-inline|Sweet Chalybeate Springs}} * [http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/springs/redsweet/ "Taking the Waters: 19th Century Mineral Springs: Red Sweet Springs."] Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia *[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1051/ Sweet Chalybeate Springs, State Route 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, VA]: 1 photo, 2 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey *[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1217/ Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Main Building, State Route 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, VA]: 3 photos and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey *[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1218/ Sweet Chalybeate Springs, North Guest Range & Cottages, State Route 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, VA]: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey *[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1219/ Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Southern Guest Range, Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, VA]: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey *[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1220/ Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Bandstand, State Route 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, VA]: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey *[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1221/ Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Spring House, State Route 311, Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, VA]: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey

Category:Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1850 Category:Buildings and structures in Alleghany County, Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Alleghany County, Virginia Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia