Mountain View
The prodigious Colonial Revival mansion erected in 1907 for Roanoke businessman and civic leader Junius Blair Fishburn, was regarded by its architect H. H. Huggins as an object of great […]
First National Bank
Roanoke’s former First National Bank, erected in 1901, is the work of architect J. Kevan Peebles of Norfolk. Combining the most modern concepts of bank and office design with Renaissance […]
Hotel Roanoke
One of Virginia’s preeminent landmarks, Hotel Roanoke is in the tradition of the great American hotels. On a hill dominating the city of Roanoke’s downtown, the sprawling half-timbered Tudor Revival […]
Colonial National Bank
The Colonial National Bank was erected in 1926-27, and was an important element of the development of the city of Roanoke as a banking hub of Southwest Virginia. Twelve stories […]
Campbell Avenue Complex
An important vestige of downtown Roanoke‘s first major wave of urban construction, the Campbell Avenue Complex is a row of five contiguous, three-story commercial buildings erected to accommodate retail shops […]
Woodward House
John Woodward, captain of the sloop Rachell and other ships operating out of the nearby port of Rocketts, occupied this wood-frame Richmond city dwelling in the first two decades of […]
Joseph P. Winston House
The cheerfully decorous flavor that late-19th-century affluent Americans required for their houses is exhibited in this narrow Richmond town house, a remnant of a formerly residential neighborhood, now part of […]
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site (Maggie Walker House)
Maggie Lena Mitchell Walker (1867-1934), daughter of a former slave, rose by her work with a black fraternal order to become the first American woman to establish and head a […]
The Virginia
Designed by the Richmond firm of Noland and Baskervill, The Virginia was erected in 1906 as the Richmond headquarters of the Virginia State Insurance Company and stands as an individualized […]
Virginia Trust Company Building
Completed in 1921 as the headquarters of the Virginia Trust Company, this bank building is a salient example of the Neoclassical Revival, an architectural style of the early 20th century […]
