Basic Construction Company Headquarters Building
The Virginia Engineering Company, later the Basic Construction Company, was one of the one hundred largest construction companies in the United States and was a significant builder in the eastern […]
West Main Street Historic District
Charlottesville’s West Main Street Historic District straddles a primary historic route between the city’s downtown and the University of Virginia. With a collection of historically-contributing buildings constructed between 1820 and […]
Mathews Downtown Historic District
The Mathews Downtown Historic District captures an area generally known as the Mathews Court House village in Mathews County and which had been occupied by Virginia Indians since the Early […]
South Hill Commercial Historic District
The South Hill Commercial Historic District in Mecklenburg County reflects South Hill’s emergence by 1891 as a rail town on the Atlantic & Danville Railroad. Financiers and engineers in 1889 […]
Big Stone Gap Downtown Historic District
The Big Stone Gap Downtown Historic District is nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of western Virginia, in Wise County. The “Big Stone Gap” refers to the broadening of the Powell […]
Twelfth Street Industrial Historic District
With the completion of the Lynchburg and Salem Turnpike in 1836, the 12th Street corridor became a gateway from western regions to the city of Lynchburg’s commercial heart. In the […]
Abingdon Historic District Extension
This expansion of the original (1970) Abingdon Historic District, in the seat of Washington County, includes properties located along Valley, King, Park, and Oak Hill streets, and White’s Mill Road, […]
New Castle Historic District (Boundary Increase)
The New Castle Historic District, formerly including only six properties, presently encompasses much of the downtown commercial center and contiguous residential areas in the town of New Castle, the seat […]
Belfield-Emporia Historic District
Collectively, the Hicksford Historic District and Belfield Historic District tell the story of the evolution of Emporia from two small early-19th-century crossroads to a merged, active city and the seat […]
Ashburn Historic District
The Ashburn Historic District in Loudoun County is a typical example of late-19th- and early-20th-century agricultural commercial center in a rural landscape. The village of Ashburn developed at the confluence […]
