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It is highly unusual for a building erected in the mid-twentieth century to be placed on the National Register of Historic. Places, but Shirley Hall a remarkable colonial revival house in Virginia, was be slowed that honor in 1999. Situated on the quiet shores of Linkhorn Bay an estuary flowing into Chesapeake Bay, the house built between 1940 and 1942, was also designated a Virginia Historic Landmark in 1998. It was designed by William Graves Perry, a principal in the Boston architectural firm of Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, who called upon the canon of eighteenth-century architecture. For his desigh. Perry was well qualified for this interpretive undertaking. His firm had ...