Advance Mills Historic District

Advance Mills Historic District, once an important milling village in western Albemarle County, is centered around a dam on the north fork of the Rivanna River. The Fray family, which […]

Cary Street Park and Shop Center

Cary Street Park and Shop Center, designed by Richmond architect Carl Messerschmidt in 1938, and developed and built by forward-thinking Richmond coal merchant Julian H. Dillon, was the first shopping […]

Orange Commercial Historic District

Orange Commercial Historic District, located in the heart of the town, contains the community’s oldest public, religious, and commercial buildings. Serving as the county seat of Orange County since 1749, […]

Mount Sidney Historic District

Mount Sidney was established in 1826, making it one of the oldest towns in Augusta County. The community that makes up the Mount Sidney Historic District originally consisted of a […]

Rocky Mount Historic District

Rocky Mount Historic District is a small service, factory, and courthouse town sited near the center of Franklin County, within view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the rolling, rural […]

Norfolk & Western Railway Company Historic District

Norfolk & Western Railway Company Historic District in the city of Roanoke contains three buildings unified by their historical connection to the Norfolk & Western Railway. The district lies north […]

Professional Building

The Professional Building on North Main Street in Suffolk was constructed from 1916-1919 as the American Bank and Trust Company, and was designed by Norfolk architect John Kevan Peebles. Peebles […]

Union Mills Canal Outlet Locks #1 and #2

Union Mills Canal Outlet Locks #1 & #2 were constructed between 1850-1854 as part of the Rivanna River canal system that ran from Charlottesville in Albemarle County through Fluvanna County […]

The Old Custom House

The Old Custom House in the Yorktown Historic District was constructed around 1721 by Richard Ambler and is one of two known surviving Colonial storehouses in Virginia. The two-and-a-half-story building […]

Rice House

Rice House is the most significant example of domestic architecture in the International Style in Richmond. It was designed by acclaimed architect Richard Neutra, whose work is well represented on […]