Farmville Historic District
Established in 1798, the central Virginia community of Farmville was laid out in an irregular grid pattern and grew by steady accretion. Its commercial, residential, and industrial sections preserve an […]
Seaboard Coastline Building
The Seaboard Coastline Building is a dominant landmark of the Portsmouth waterfront. This curved-front structure has been a symbol of the link between rail and sea commerce in Hampton Roads […]
Bill’s Diner
More recently known as “Streetcar Named Desire,” this engaging example of 20th-century Americana, formerly Bill’s Diner, began life in the mid-1920s as a functioning streetcar in Reidsville, N.C. Bill Fretwell […]
Burnett’s Diner
The mid-1920s Danville Car No. 66 ended its transportation duties in 1938 when that city began converting to bus service. Salvaged from the scrappers, the trolley car was converted into […]
Petersburg Courthouse Historic District
Incorporating portions of some nine blocks in the heart of the city, the Petersburg Courthouse Historic District centers around the 1840 courthouse which dominates the downtown skyline. Along its streets […]
Petersburg Old Town Historic District
Occupying the lower part of the central business district and the High Street and Grove Avenue residential areas in the city of Petersburg, the large Petersburg Old Town Historic District […]
Nathaniel Friend House
Nathaniel Friend, Jr., an import-export merchant and former mayor of the city, had this imposing example of Petersburg’s Federal-style architecture built in 1815-16. Standing across Cockade Alley from the Farmers’ […]
Farmers’ Bank
The Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, incorporated in 1812, opened its Petersburg branch that same year. The bank completed the present three-story Federal-style structure to replace its earlier office destroyed by […]
City Market
Orson Squire Fowler’s treatise, A Home for All (1848), extolling the advantages of octagonal buildings, resulted not only in the construction of numerous octagonal houses but in the erection of […]
Exchange Building
This splendid Greek Revival building was completed in 1841 to house the Exchange, the city of Petersburg’s commodities auction house. Records show that the construction was supervised by a “Mr. […]
