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Dr. Christian Hockman House

historic house in Virginia, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ15214991 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dr. Christian Hockman House, also known as Chequers, is a historic home located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1868, and is a two-story three bay square, Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It features a prominent square central tower; wide, bracketed cornices, embellished with decorative scroll-sawn

friezes; and an elaborately detailed front verandah.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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“Dr. Christian Hockman House” enters the record as historic house in Virginia, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Christian, Hockman and House can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15214991. Authority coordinates are 38.829, -78.551. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1868 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dr. Christian Hockman House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.