# Sweet Chalybeate Springs

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{{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](/source/Sweet_Chalybeate%2C_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](/source/hotel) complex located at [Sweet Chalybeate](/source/Sweet_Chalybeate%2C_Virginia), [Alleghany County, Virginia](/source/Alleghany_County%2C_Virginia). It dates to the 1850s, and consists of a main building, guest ranges, and [cottages](/source/Cottage) 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](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1974.<ref name=nris/>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [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](/source/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](/source/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

{{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia}}

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

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