Hampton Downtown Historic District

The Hampton Downtown Historic District has been an active port on the Chesapeake Bay since the end of the 17th century. The colonial assembly ordered that a port be built […]

Gloucester Downtown Historic District

The boundaries of the Gloucester Downtown Historic District extended in a linear fashion on either side of Main Street in Gloucester Court House.  Originally established as the Town of Botetourt […]

Gate City Historic District

The Gate City Historic District in the Scott County seat is a five-block area that emerged as a vital commercial hub for the surrounding countryside beginning in the 19th century. […]

Flint Hill Historic District

The Flint Hill Historic District is located in northern Rappahannock County. The district arose as a crossroads community beginning in the 1740s and was established in 1843 by an act […]

Altavista Downtown Historic District

The Altavista Downtown Historic District encompasses the commercial core of this Campbell County town. Chartered in 1912, Altavista arose soon after the regional Virginian Railway extended an east-west line to […]

Noland Company Building

The Noland Company Building in the city of Newport News is significant for its association with the region’s commercial history. Built in 1920, the building originally housed the Granby Phonograph […]

Sibley’s and James Store Historic District

The Sibley’s and James Store Historic District, in the Mathews Downtown Historic District, features three store buildings—two of which were connected at some point—that have played a role in the […]

Oakdale

Oakdale, an 80-acre farm that straddles the line between Floyd and Franklin counties just east of the Blue Ridge Parkway, features a ca. 1890 Queen Anne-style house, a large barn, […]

Tazewell Avenue Historic District

Tazewell Avenue Historic District arose primarily as a residential area, with some attendant commercial development, along the western side of the Clinch River during the first half of the 20th […]

Calverton Historic District

The Calverton Historic District, located in southeastern Fauquier County, arose circa 1852 as a rural village strategically located on a spur branch of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad that connected […]