South River Friends Meetinghouse
Quakers settled in the area of present-day Lynchburg in the mid-18th century and built their first meetinghouse in 1757. The present meetinghouse, completed in 1798, is the third on the […]
Virginia Episcopal School
Virginia Episcopal School is symbolic of the many dedicated efforts of religious institutions at the turn of the 20th century to improve the availability of quality secondary education and to […]
First Baptist Church
This vigorous composition, with its many gables highlighted by a needle spire, is perhaps Virginia’s best representative of the High Victorian Gothic style, a richly ornamented interpretation of the Gothic […]
Court Street Baptist Church
Court Street Baptist Church, located in the Court House Hill/Downtown Historic District, is the mother church of Lynchburg’s Black Baptists and is the most conspicuous landmark of the city’s African […]
Providence Presbyterian Church
Providence Church in Louisa County is one of Virginia’s few remaining wood frame colonial churches and is among the first churches to be built in the central part of the […]
Waterford Historic District
Nestled in the countryside of Loudoun County’s northern tip, the village of Waterford developed as a 19th-century Quaker milling community. The Waterford Historic District traces its origins to circa 1733 […]
Old Stone Church Archaeological Site
In the heart of Leesburg in Loudoun County, the Old Stone Church Archaeological Site contains the remains of the earliest Methodist meetinghouse in Virginia. Constructed between 1766 and 1770 and […]
Middleburg Historic District
The physical and psychological heart of Northern Virginia’s hunt country, the Middleburg Historic District, within the compact and fastidious southern Loudoun County village of Middleburg, retains the qualities of its […]
Glebe of Shelburne Parish
Nestled in the shadow of Mount Gilead, in the pastoral landscape of Loudoun County’s Goose Creek Historic District, the former glebe house of Shelburne Parish is one of the state’s […]
Goose Creek Rural Historic District
The Goose Creek Rural Historic District is a scenically cohesive rural area of some 10,000 acres in central Loudoun County that sustained Virginia’s largest concentration of Quaker settlers. The English […]
