Spring Dale, also known as Springdale and David S. McGavock House, is a historic home and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located near Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses five contributing buildings and the Samuel Cecil Archeological Site. The main house was built in 1856–1857, and is a two-story, nearly square,

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style brick mansion. James C. Deyerle is credited with early construction. It has a double pile, central-hall plan and shallow hipped roof. Also on the property are the contributing brick smokehouse, a frame barn, a frame

chicken coop Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chicke ...

, and a log structure that may have served as a blacksmith shop. The Samuel Cecil Archeological Site consists of the ruins of the log house built by Samuel Cecil in 1768. an
''Accompanying four photos''
/ref> It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Historic districts in Pulaski County, Virginia Gothic Revival architecture in Virginia Houses in Pulaski County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{PulaskiCountyVA-NRHP-stub