Nomination Form
Boyce Historic District includes most of the historic, commercial, residential, religious, and educational buildings of the small Clarke County town of Boyce, located in the northern Shenandoah Valley. Established in 1880 at the intersection of the newly constructed Shenandoah Valley Railroad and the Winchester-Berry’s Ferry Turnpike, Boyce emerged as an important commercial center and shipping point for local farmers. The town’s architectural fabric represents a rich variety of building types and styles typical of the late-19th- and 20th-centuries, including the Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, and Craftsman styles, as well as vernacular forms. The district includes buildings dating from 1880 to 1920, reflecting the town’s period of greatest growth and development.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
