Fairfax Hall

It was built in 1890, and is a 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.

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.

[1] 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.

This article about a property in Waynesboro, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.

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.