<p>Warren County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse complex located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. It was built in 1935–1936, and is a two-story, stone faced concrete block, Colonial Revival style building. It consists of a central rectangular block with a pedimented gable roof and smaller flanking recessed wings. The central block is topped by a three-stage cupola with an open and domed belfry. Also on the property are the contributing brick clerk&#39;s office , brick jail , and two war memorials - a Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1911, and an obelisk honoring veterans of World Wars I and II.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is located in the Front Royal Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Front Royal Historic District is a national historic district located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The district encompasses approximately 470 contributing buildings and structures in the town of Front Royal. It has a mix of commercial, residential, industrial, religious and governmental buildings dating from the late-18th to mid-20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the former Proctor-Biggs Mill (c. 1922), a former apple warehouse, Murphys Theater (1908-1909), Comptons Corner (c. 1905), first Bank of Warren, Trout Drugstore Building, second Bank of Warren building (1914), Montview Hotel (c. 1868), Park Theater (c. 1920), the Henry Trout House (c. 1800), Mullen-Trout House (c. 1815), Giles-Cooke House (c. 1850), and the Dr. Manly Littleton Garrison (c. 1882). Located in the district and separately listed are the Balthis House and Warren County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District is a national historic district located at Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The district encompasses 66 contributing buildings and one contributing site in the town of Front Royal. It is a primarily residential district with buildings dating from the mid-19th century and including a diverse collection of building types and architectural styles. Notable buildings include Lackawanna , the Old Duncan Hotel , the Riverton United Methodist Church , Dellbrook , the Carson Lime Company worker&#39;s houses, and the Old Riverton Post Office and Grocery. Located in the district and separately listed is Riverside.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020k.jpgOld Duncan Hotel</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020g.jpgRiverside</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020h.jpgLackawanna</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020o.jpgOld Riverton Post Office and Grocery</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020p.jpgHouses along Queens Highway</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020t.jpgDellbrook</p><br>
<p>Riverton Historic District 2020w.jpgAbandoned house</p><br>
<p>Front Royal Recreational Park Historic District, also known as the Front Royal Country Club, is a national historic district located near Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia. The district encompasses 3 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 3 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object near the town of Front Royal. The park was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1938. The historic resources on the property include a garage, and greenskeeper&#39;s house, the golf course, the tennis courts, swimming pool, and original shelter, as well as a stone drinking fountain and a stone memorial marker. The property is operated as a public golf course by Warren County. The original clubhouse was lost in the flood of 1996 and rebuilt in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>FRONT ROYAL RECREATIONAL PARK HISTORIC DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY, VA.jpgGarage in 2016</p><br>
<p>Mont Calm — also known as Montcalm — is a historic house in Abingdon, Virginia, United States. It is a two-story, five-bay brick farmhouse constructed in the Federal style that dates back to 1827. Its two-story extension, which was added in approximately 1905, is 40 feet long and 30 feet broad. A standing seam metal gable roof covers the home, which has a limestone base. A porch with a shed roof and Tuscan order columns supports the front facade. Virginia Governor David Campbell lived there (1779–1859.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Dr. William H. Pitts House is a historic home located at Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. It was built in 1854, and is a two-story, five-bay, stuccoed masonry, Greek Revival style dwelling. The house sits on a limestone foundation and has a gable roof with stepped-gable parapet walls flanking paired chimneys on each end. It has a recessed entrance which features a double-leaf wood entrance door surrounded by a transom and sidelights.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and is located within the Abingdon Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Grove, also known as The Children&#39;s Advocacy Center of Bristol and Washington County, is a historic home located just outside Bristol in Washington County, Virginia. It was built in 1857, on the Walnut Grove tract. It is a two-story, five-bay, brick Greek Revival style dwelling with a kitchen wing. The house has a gable roof and features a two-story wood-framed front porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Grove, also known as the Robert Preston House, is a historic plantation house located just outside Bristol in Washington County, Virginia. It was built about 1815, and is a two-story, Georgian style timber-frame dwelling covered with wood weatherboard. The house has a gable roof and has a one-story full-width porch. The Grove was built on the Walnut Grove property in 1857.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Brook Hall is a historic home located at Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia. It was built about 1830, and is a large two-story, five-bay, "T" plan, Federal style brick dwelling. The house has a four-bay, two-story brick wing. The interior retains spectacular carved woodwork as well as very early, possibly original, paint on woodgrained doors and marbled mantels and baseboards. Also on the property is a contributing spring house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is currently for sell.</p><br>
<p>Abingdon Bank is a historic bank building with a residence located at Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story Greek Revival / Late Victorian style brick building. It originally housed the residence of the cashier and his family in one part, and the bank, counting room, and vault were in the other.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and is located within the Abingdon Historic District.</p><br>
<p>White&#39;s Mill is a historic grist mill located near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. It dates to the mid-19th century, and is a frame two-story structure resting on a down slope basement with a full attic sheltered by a gable roof. It has a Fitz waterwheel and great gear wheel, buhr runs, roller mills, elevators and bolting machinery. Associated with the mill are the contributing earthen race which feeds directly into the wooden race and onto the wheel and an early coursed rubble limestone dam. The mill remains in working condition.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Crabtree–Blackwell Farm is a historic farm located near Blackwell, Washington County, Virginia. The main house is a "saddlebag" type building with 2 1/2-story pens connected by a central limestone rubble chimney stack. The remaining Appalachian vernacular contributing resources are a spring house or milkhouse and log hay barn. The farm is representative of mountain folk culture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Moonlite Theatre, also known as the Moonlite Drive-In, is a historic drive-in theater located near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. It was built and opened in 1949, and remained one of the few drive-ins still open in Virginia until finally closing in 2013. The theater reopened briefly in 2016 but closed shortly after due to a pending lawsuit. Remaining original buildings and structures include the 65-foot-tall screen tower and office wing, the ticket booth, the concession stand/projector booth building, and the neon-illuminated attraction board at the edge of the highway. The theatre includes 454 parking/viewing spaces designed as reverse-incline ramps.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The Moonlite was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, and was one of few drive-in theaters nationwide to be awarded that distinction.</p><br>
<p>The theater closed in 2013 and was in danger of being lost due to neglect. Some renovation work was begun in late 2016 under an agreement establishing joint ownership of the theater and through monetary and labor contributions from private individuals. Although these were not yet complete, it re-opened and began showing its traditional week-end double features in October 2016.</p><br>
<p>As of March, 2017, the agreement that led to the renovations has come under dispute and a lawsuit has been filed.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 2020, the Barter Theatre started producing plays and staging them at the Moonlite Theatre due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plays performed on a stage were simultaneously projected into the big screen, and audio was provided through FM radio. The Barter also put on a summer concert series at the drive-in during 2021.</p><br>
<p>In 2024, the theater was bought by new owners, who plan to reopen in Late 2024</p><br>
<p>Abingdon Historic District is a national historic district located at Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. The district encompasses 145 contributing buildings, 2 contributing site, and 13 contributing structures in the town of Abingdon. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from the late-18th century to the mid-20th century. Notable contributing resources include Sinking Spring Cemetery, William King High School , General Francis Preston House , Martha Washington Inn, Barter Theatre, the Virginia House, Alexander Findlay House , Gabriel Stickley House , Ann Berry House , Washington County Courthouse , Rev. Charles Cummings House , and James Fields House . Located in the district and separately listed are the Abingdon Bank and Dr. William H. Pitts House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, with a boundary increase in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant is a historic home located at Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built in 1887.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant is a three-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features a wraparound porch with turned posts and sawn brackets, four brick chimneys, and a central projecting tower with a pyramidal roof. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse, a carriage barn, and a well house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Old Morrison Mill is a historic gristmill in Burnt Prairie, Illinois. The mill was originally constructed in 1859 in Enfield and was moved to Burnt Prairie in the late nineteenth century, replacing another mill built in 1820. The mill served as the farming communitys local grain processing facility, converting wheat to flour and corn to meal. While the mill was originally horse-powered, a wood-fueled boiler was installed in 1897; the boilers power source later changed to coal, a diesel engine, and ultimately electricity. Parkin and Martin owned the mill after its relocation to Burnt Prairie until brothers R.S. and Cal Morrison purchased it in 1897. R.S. Morrison died in 1931; his sons continued to operate the mill with Cal until 1963. The mill currently sits vacant and houses a variety of well-preserved milling tools and machinery.</p><br>
<p>The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1984. As of December 2017, a portion of the building had collapsed.</p><br>
<p>James Monroe Birthplace Park & Museum, also known as James Monroe&#39;s Birthplace, is a historic archaeological site located near Oak Grove and Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The site includes the ruins and a restoration of the Monroe Family Home and birthplace of USA Founding Father and President James Monroe, which were uncovered in 1976 by a team from the College of William & Mary. Monroe spent his entire youth working the farm until he left for his education at William & Mary, following which he served in the Continental Army. The archaeological team uncovered a house foundation measuring 20 feet by 58 feet. The known 1845 etchings of the birth home indicate a small four room, rough cut wooden farm house with few outbuildings on a 500-acre farm filled with wetlands.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a boundary increase in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Opened on October 2, 2021, the museum features a visitor center and a restoration of Monroe&#39;s birthplace. It is currently open for tours from Memorial Day to Labor Day from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.</p><br>
<p>The Alexis Phelps House is a historic home located on the Mississippi River at Oquawka in Henderson County, Illinois, United States. The New England–style house was built in 1832-1833 by Alexis Phelps, a fur trader and one of the first settlers of the region. Phelps, who was born in Palmyra, New York, settled on a piece of land known as Yellow Banks, which his brother Stephen had purchased in 1828. Alexis and Stephen Phelps founded Oquawka, which they named for the Native American name for Yellow Banks, in 1836. Stephen A. Douglas, who frequently presided over the Henderson County Circuit Court, stayed in the house during his visits to Oquawka. The house was also rumored to be a stop on the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1982. The Henderson County Historical Society rehabilitated the house in the 1980s, saving it from demolition. The historical society now leases the house for events.</p><br>
<p>The Pike-Sheldon House, located at 406 South 3rd Street in Monmouth, Illinois, is a historic home and the birthplace of lawman Wyatt Earp. The house features an Upright and Wing plan with a Greek Revival design; its two-story upright section was constructed circa 1841, while its one-story wing was added circa 1868. The Upright and Wing plan was popular among houses built in the early settlement of the Midwest. The home&#39;s Greek Revival elements include a wide banded frieze, sash windows, and cornice returns. Wyatt Earp was born in the home in 1848, while his aunt was renting the house. The house is one of the oldest homes in Monmouth and one of only two Upright and Wing homes remaining in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Wyatt Earp Birthplace Museum now occupies the house.</p><br>
<p>The Babcock Building is a historic structure located off Bull St. in Columbia, South Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1981. The building was the second to house patients on the campus of South Carolina State Hospital, after the Mills Building proved to be insufficient in space to house its patients.</p><br>
<p>On September 12, 2020, the Babcock Building was the site of a three-alarm fire which collapsed the building&#39;s dome and gutted the interior. Reconstruction and renovation plans are undergoing and are expected to be completed in 2022. At completion, the Babcock Building will be divided into 208 apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and history</h2><br>
<p>The first section of Babcock was designed by George E. Walker in 1858. Walker died before the south wing was complete. The north wing was overseen by Gustavus T. Berg. The central portion, bearing the name and serving as the main entrance, was designed by architect Samuel Sloan. The structure was completed in 1885 after four building campaigns. Construction delays were due to funding and the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Through the years, additions were made to the building, including stairwells whose style and materials do not match that of the rest of the building. Several buildings were constructed directly adjacent to Babcock, but have since been removed.</p><br>
<p>The Babcock Building was scheduled to be renovated into apartment buildings for Columbias planned Bull Street District. The state had sold 143 out of the propertys 181 acres for $18.5 million. On December 13, 2018, the building&#39;s roof caught fire. The state of South Carolina paid for repairs which may cost up to $400,000.</p><br>
<p>On September 12, 2020, a fire broke out in the building. Fire crews arrived at approximately 6:30 a.m. The fire chief reported that the three-alarm fire had spread through all three floors of the vacant building and gutted the interior. The building&#39;s dome, a longtime Columbia landmark, collapsed in the fire. The owner has received crucial loans to continue rebuilding and renovating the structure which is expected to be completed in 2022. At completion, the building will host 208 apartments and is expected to reinvigorate the Bull Street District.</p><br>
<h2>Style</h2><br>
<p>Following the Kirkbride Plan, Babcock was designed not to include subterranean housing of patients. Each wing of the structure is 3–4 stories with rooms broken up into manageable wards. For its time, the building was heavily fireproofed. It also utilized, for a time, gas lighting. The building did not completely comply with Kirkbride standards. Babcock did not have staggered blocks within its wings, as would be seen in a true Kirkbride. South Carolina Lunatic Asylum head physician Dr. Trezevant successfully argued that the staggering of blocks would not allow the ventilation needed for the warm southern climate. However, against Trezevant&#39;s wishes, the halls were built in a double-range, with rooms on either side of the hallway.</p><br>
<p>Babcock is noted as a particularly fine example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture. Walker was previously known for his work in Romanesque and Gothic Revival. Though he died before even his own section was complete, his work became the basis for the rest of the buildings construction. Bergs northern wing mirrors the design of the original in many ways.</p><br>
<p>Sloan&#39;s central section is crowned with a twelve-sided cupola whose red domed roof can be seen from far across the city. This section also featured the operating rooms, dormitories for staff, offices, and a chapel. Dining halls were added to the eastern end of the central block in 1916.</p><br>
<h2>Historic uses</h2><br>
<p>Health care</p><br>
<p>Filming location for Chattahoochee</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<h3>Videos</h3><br>
<p>Hidden History of the Bull Street Asylum, 2021 on YouTube</p><br>
<p>Bushfield, also known as Bushfield Manor, is a historic -story Flemish bond, 18th century brick Colonial Revival mansion located in Mount Holly, Westmoreland County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Bushfield is the former homestead of John Augustine Washington, younger brother to George Washington, and his wife, Hannah Bushrod Washington. The plantation is located on Nomini Creek and the Potomac River, and was divided throughout the 19th century. The dwelling house was remodeled in the early 20th century by noted architect, Waddy Butler Wood.</p><br>
<p>During research for its historic nomination, Historian Kimble A. David, of Norfolk located a 1916 letter describing a contractual agreement for a remodeling project at Bushfield. The renovation was so extensive that many came to believe incorrectly that the house was first built at that time.</p><br>
<p>The origins of the Mount Holly property have been proven so conclusively that it was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Wood enlarged the 18th century original home of the family of George Washington. Its National Register of Historic Places listing is based on its 1916 renovation discussed below. Also on the property are a contributing Bungalow-style caretaker&#39;s House, barn, silo, and cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bushfield, on Nomini Creek, was the family plantation of John Bushrod, whose father (of the same name) had bought it from Rice Maddox. Hannah Bushrod (daughter of the former Mildred Corbin, who married the younger John Bushrod) married John Augustine Washington in 1756. Bushfield was about 20 miles down the King&#39;s Highway from the oldest Washington family plantation—700 acres called "Head of Maddox" (meaning Mattox Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River), which Augustine Washington in 1743 willed to that same John Augustine Washington, his younger son. While his older brother George Washington was surveying western lands, John Augustine Washington brought his bride to Mount Vernon further up the Potomac River, then managed that plantation until George Washington married Martha Custis and brought her to Mount Vernon, which John Augustine Washington left in September 1761, after selling his brother some cattle.</p><br>
<p>John and Hannah Washington would have sons Bushrod, Corbin, and William Augustine Washington, and daughters Mary and Jenny.</p><br>
<p>John Bushrod by his February 1760 will (admitted to probate by the end of that year) bequeathed Bushfield, its land, furniture and 35 slaves to Hannah Bushrod Washington, and three slaves each to his granddaughters Mary and Jenny. John A. Washington and his family visited Mount Vernon many times between 1760 and John&#39;s death on January 10, 1787, the last recorded being a three-day visit in October 1786. John A. Washington had given his son Bushrod 41 slaves as a marriage deed of gift, which specified they would be deducted from his share of the estate. John Washington then wrote a will in 1784 (that gave his widow dower rights in 1/3 of his slaves (some named) and divided his land among his sons Bushrod and Corbin Washington, among other specified legacies) and a codicil in November 1785—which were both admitted to probate in Westmoreland County on July 31, 1787. In addition to his Westmoreland County plantations, John A. Washington had purchased 213 acres near and town lots in Berkeley Springs.</p><br>
<p>Many Bushrods, as well as John Augustine Washington, and Corbin Washington and his wife (the former Hannah Lee) would all be buried at Bushfield, although Corbin and his wife both died in Fairfax County in the winter of 1799–1800. Although several of the gravestones were missing in the Bushfield graveyard in 1944, two stone tombs remain and replacement markers were added, so 14 graves are known.</p><br>
<p>Bushrod Washington sold Bushfield in 1804, and it was resold several times by the century&#39;s end.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>In 1916, prominent Chicagoan Mark Skinner Willing, heir to the Marshall Field retailing fortune, hired architect Waddy Butler Wood, who renovated and enlarged the dwelling in the Colonial Revival style, expanding an existing dwelling on both sides, with side gable roofs. A portico and lantern reflect the propertys association with the family of George Washington. Waddy Butler Woods father was from Virginia, and although the architect was born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was raised in Gloucester County, Virginia and educated at Virginia Tech. In the early 20th century, Wood became a prominent architect in the national capital area, for both government and private buildings. He preferred the Colonial Revival style and had earlier renovated the interior of another former Washington family house, Woodlawn.</p><br>
<p>Mark Skinner Willing was the son and heir of Henry J. Willing who was a partner in the Marshall Field Department Store. His mother was Frances Skinner who was the daughter of Mark Skinner a prominent Chicago lawyer and supporter of Abraham Lincoln. Upon retiring from Marshall Field Henry J. Willing became a real estate developer in Chicago. In 1895 Mark Skinner Willing married Margaret McFaden, the daughter of Robert and Rose McFaden of Chicago. He was the son of a prominent family from Quincy, Illinois. Mark Skinner Willing, eschewing Chicago where the family lived on Walton Place and in Lake Forest, where he had constructed a home on Lake Michigan, bought the old Bushfield Plantation which was located on a peninsular between Nomini and Buckner Creeks in Westmoreland County, Virginia. His first purchase was for the existing 18th c. home and the property around it. Subsequently he bought property to complete his purchase of the entire peninsula. In 1915 he engaged Waddy Wood of Washington D.C. as architect for the project to greatly enlarge the still standing Bushfield Manor House for his family which now included three daughters (Margaret Woodbridge, Evelyn Pierpont, and Frances) and in 1920 a son, Mark Skinner Willing, Jr. Brick from the old house was used in the partial construction of the Willing home. So remote was Bushfield (getting there involved an overnight on a Chesapeake Bay steamer from Baltimore) that it took 7 years to complete the transformation of Bushfield into a Georgian Revival brick mansion. Mr. Willing and Mr. Wood sited the house to take maximum advantage of the views to the Potomac River and to catch the breeze off the river. The family at first resided there during the fall and spring but increasingly during the Depression and World War II spent more time there and made Bushfield their primary home. In addition to constructing farm buildings for a working farm and a plant to produce electricity, Mr.Willing installed a tennis court and a golf course for his family. Mr. Willing died in 1944 and the house and farm were sold to Mrs. St. John. Mrs. Willing returned to Chicago and died there in 1948. Margaret Willing married and resided in Chicago as did Mark S. Willing Jr. Evelyn Willing, upon her marriage, remained in Virginia and resided in Tappahannock, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Spring Grove is a historic home located at Mount Holly, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built in 1834, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick farmhouse. The interior features pattern book inspired Greek Revival and Federal style woodwork and plasterwork. The front facade features a pedimented tetrastyle portico in an Ionic order. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Roxbury is a historic home located near Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1861, and is a two-story, T-shaped frame dwelling with a two-bay front section and a three-bay rear wing. It features a one-story front porch supported by coupled, bracketed columns; steeply pitched gable roofs with deep projecting eaves and gables; two large gabled dormers; and sawn-work ornaments. Each wing has a central chimney with four square stacks joined at its corbelled caps. Roxbury was built for Dabney Carr Wirt (1814/1815-1888), the oldest brother of William Wirt, Jr., builder of Wirtland, and son of William Wirt, the noted jurist, statesman and author.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Armstead T. Johnson High School is a historic high school complex for African-American students located near Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The main building was built in 1937, and is a one-story, U-shaped Colonial Revival style brick building. Contributing structures on the property include the one-story, frame Industrial Arts Building and the one-story, frame Home Economics Cottage. At a time when the state had a policy of legal racial segregation in public schools, this was among the first purpose-built high schools for African Americans on the Northern Neck of Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, is now operated as a museum to preserve the history and legacy of education for African-American students in the Northern Neck, especially in Westmoreland County. It has collections, artifacts, memorabilia, and other materials related to this period.</p><br>
<p>Kinsale Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinsale, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The district encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the historic core of the village of Kinsale. The district includes primarily residential and commercial buildings dating from the late-19th to early-20th centuries. Notable resources include the Bailey Cemetery, the Great House  and Little House , Plain View , Captain Charles Courtney House , former Bank of Kinsale, former Palmer and Moore Kinsale Motor Corporation , Cople District Volunteer Fire Hall Department Building, Kinsale Foundation and Museum, and Kinsale Harbour Yacht Club.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Blenheim is a historic home located near Wakefield Corner, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built about 1781, and is a two-story, three-bay, Late Georgian style brick dwelling. It has a gable roof and two-story, frame wing. The house was built by the Washington family to replace the original family house at Wakefield soon after it burned on Christmas Day, 1779. The house was built for William Augustine Washington, the son of George Washington&#39;s half-brother Augustine Washington II.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>John Fox Jr. House, also known as the John Fox Jr. Museum, is a historic home located at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It is named for the American author John Fox Jr., who lived there from 1890 until 1919.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Fox Jr. first visited the Cumberland Gap area while a student at Harvard College. His two older brothers, James and Horace, owned coal mines in Jellico, Tennessee, and the three came to the area as speculators and mineral developers in 1888. While exploring the area for business, John Fox became more and more fascinated with the region and its people, eventually abandoning his real estate interests for his writing. Works like The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come reflected both his interest as well as a general interest among American readers for the Appalachian people.</p><br>
<p>Despite his frequent travels, Fox had his productive writing period in the home on Shawnee Avenue and it is here that he wrote his most famous works. The original section of the Fox home was built in 1890, as a four-room cottage. The house was subsequently expanded to a two-story, 20 room dwelling. The frame dwelling sits on a stone foundation.</p><br>
<p>Fritzi Scheff, a singer with the Metropolitan Opera, was fascinated by the region through reading Fox&#39;s stories. After divorcing her husband, she married Fox and came to live in the home with him; the two became local celebrities. However, she was disappointed to find Appalachian life less exciting than she anticipated and the two divorced in 1913.</p><br>
<h2>House today</h2><br>
<p>The house was opened as a museum in 1970 and is today operated by the Lonesome Pine Arts and Crafts Association. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The property remains furnished the way it was during the time of the Fox family&#39;s residence there.</p><br>
<p>June Tolliver House, also known as the June Tolliver House & Folk Art Center, is a historic home located at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a -story, three-bay Queen Anne-style brick dwelling. It has complex gable roof with projecting end bays. It is recognized as the house in which June Morris, the prototype of June Tolliver, heroine of John Fox, Jr.&#39;s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine boarded when she came to school in Big Stone Gap. The house is open as a museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Terrace Park Girl Scout Cabin, also known as the Big Stone Gap Girl Scout Cabin, is a historic Girl Scouts of the United States of America clubhouse at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1938 by the National Youth Administration. It is a one-story, five room log building constructed of large, round pine logs. It has a low gable roof and exterior end chimneys constructed of cobblestone. It was used by the Girl Scouts until 1943, after which it was acquired by Big Stone Gap as a rental facility for public events.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Kelly View School is a historic one-room school located at Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia. It likely dates to the 1890s, and is a small, one-story, one room frame building with a front gable roof. It sits on a poured concrete foundation and is sheathed in weatherboard. It remained in use as a school until 1959 or 1960, after which it was used as a place of worship, called Kelly View Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Tacoma School, also known as Tacoma School Community Center, is a historic school building in Coeburn, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1922 and rebuilt after a fire in 1937. It is a one-story, nine-bay rectangular brick building with four classrooms. It has a projecting-centered gable bay and a hipped roof. The school was based on plans adopted by the North Carolina state school system in 1911. It ceased use as a school in 1973 and has been adapted for use as a Community Center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Flat Gap High School, also known as Flat Gap School Community Center, is a historic high school building located at Pound, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1935–1936 and is a one-story building with a three-part plan, consisting of a front gabled midsection and set-back, side-gable wings. The Classical Revival design references include rusticated stonework, molded cornice with gable returns, and a round-arched principal entrance with granite voussoirs and keystone. It ceased use as a school in the 1970s, and has been adapted for use as a community center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Norton is a historic hotel building located in Norton, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a six-story Colonial Revival style building consisting of a cut sandstone base, brick middle, and a deep stone and wood entablature. The interior features a two-story lobby with a decorative mezzanine level balcony. The hotel was abandoned in the 1970s and 1980s and subsequently acquired by the City of Norton for redevelopment.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Country Cabin is a historic log cabin and community center located near Norton, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1937, and is a one-story, chestnut log building measuring 20 feet by 40 feet. The Country Cabin has been continually used</p><br>
<p>to promote traditional Appalachian heritage through music, dance, and cultural programs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Derby Historic District is a national historic district located in Wise County, Virginia. The district encompasses 102 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the coal company town of Derby. The contributing buildings consist of 72 houses, the Derby Methodist Church, a hose house, 5 company garages, 5 outbuildings, and 18 coal houses. Most of the buildings were built in 1923 of hollow ceramic tile.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Stonega Historic District is a national historic district located at Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia. The district encompasses 80 contributing buildings in the coal company town of Stonega. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings built after the towns&#39; founding in 1895. Notable buildings include the Catholic Church , Stonega Colored Methodist Church , Stonega Colored School / Community Building, Stonega Bath House , and Stonega Colored School.</p><br>
<p>Large homes were built for company doctors and less grand but almost as large was a house for the superintendent. Ten, Four and Seven car garages were also built for cars.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The William W. Kimball House is a private residence located at 1801 Prairie Avenue in the Near South Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1890–1892 for William Wallace Kimball, a piano manufacturer. Kimball reportedly spent $1 million on the home. At the time, Prairie Avenue was known for its expensive homes designed in popular revival styles, and the district was home to many of Chicagos wealthiest residents. The Kimball House and the John J. Glessner House are the main two surviving examples of the districts homes of the late 1800s. The house now serves as the headquarters of the United States Soccer Federation.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Kimball house was designed by architect Solon Spencer Beman in the Châteauesque style. The houses design features a number of turrets with a variety of roof shapes, a limestone exterior, and an elliptical bow window topped by an ornamented gable facing Prairie Avenue. The design is considered a significant example of the Châteauesque style by architectural historians; John Drury called the house "Chicagos best Châteauesque design" in 1941, and Marcus Whiffen cited the house as a representative example of Châteauesque architecture in America.</p><br>
<p>The William Waller House is a historic house located at 1012 N. Dearborn St. in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The home was built in 1875&ndash;76, shortly after the Great Chicago Fire, during the development of Chicagos prosperous Gold Coast district. The houses Italianate design features a stone exterior, a double bay front, a bracketed and ornamented cornice, arched windows, and decorative keystones. Though Italianate rowhouses are still common in the Near North Side, freestanding Italianate homes are relatively rare, and the Waller House is one of the best-preserved examples of these homes.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Haller–Gibboney Rock House is a historic home located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. It was built in 1822–1823, and is a two-story, five bay late Federal style limestone dwelling. It has a side gable roof and a two-story frame ell terminating in a demi-octagonal end. The Rock House was used as a hospital during the Battle of Wytheville during Civil War. The building houses a museum sponsored by the Wythe County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Loretto is a historic home located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Loretto, just north of the historic downtown Wytheville, was originally built in 1852 for William Alexander Stuart, brother of General J.E.B. Stuart. Virginia Governor Henry Carter Stuart (1914-1918), Williams son, may have been born in the house. Lorettos second owner, Benjamin Rush Floyd, was a state senator and son of another Virginia governor, John Floyd (1830-1834). As residents, Benjamin and his wife Nancy named the property after the Loreto Shrine in Italy.</p><br>
<p>Lorettos size doubled in the late nineteenth century. Robert Crockett, Lorettos fourth owner, Victorianized the building with a third floor and slate mansard roof. The Campbell family lived in the mansion from 1888 to 1992 and during that time added a grand spindlework stair railing of the Second-Empire style (1889), a Doric portico on the front facade (1911), and a porte cohere and pergola on the side elevations of the home (1927).</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The original section, built in 1852, is a two-story, single-pile, center-passage-plan dwelling that now forms the rear section of the house. The two-story brick front section was added in the 1880s, and has a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. The interior has Greek Revival style decorative details. A two-story front portico was added in 1911, a one-story rear brick ell was added in 1912, and a porte-cochère and pergola were added in 1927. Also on the property are the contributing log smokehouse (1850s), a double-pen, v-notched outdoor kitchen (1852), and a frame building known as the office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Uses today</h2><br>
<p>The current owners lived in Loretto from 1991 to 2014 and have renovated it as an event venue and conference space. It can be reserved for corporate conferences, educational seminars, house tours, and indoor recitals. Total indoor capacity is 50.</p><br>
<p>Maj. David Graham House, also known as Cedar Run Farm, is a historic home located at Fosters Falls, Wythe County, Virginia. The house was built in four sections, beginning about 1840 and finishing about 1890. As such its design details reflect styles from late Federal to orientalized Queen Anne. The house is a -story, T-shaped, wood and brick structure of immense proportions. It is topped by a hipped roof with dormers and features a short hipped roofed tower. Also on the property are the contributing office and commissary, spring house, kitchen, and two barns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Sanders Farm is a historic home and farm located at Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The Brick House was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped, Queen Anne style brick farmhouse. It features ornamental gables and porches. Also on the property are the contributing cold frame with a stepped front parapet , a vaulted stone spring house, a one-story brick servants quarters , a cinder block store with an upstairs apartment and an accompanying privy , a frame vehicle repair shop , a stone reservoir  two corn crib, a frame gambrel-roofed barn, a one-story tenant house , stone bridge abutments, and the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine , a complex of rock formations and tram line beds.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery is a historic Lutheran cemetery and national historic district located near Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia. The cemetery includes approximately about 50 early Germanic sandstone monuments dating from 1800 to 1850. The associated Kimberlin Lutheran Church was built in 1913, and is a large frame structure with two unequal-sized towers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Wythe County Poorhouse Farm is a historic poor farm complex located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The poor farm was established in 1858, and remained in operation until 1957. It was the second poor farm in Wythe County; the first was in operation from 1825 to 1858. The property includes the contributing Queen Anne style overseer&#39;s house , eight pauper homes , a shed , a spring house , smokehouse , wash house , and chicken coop . The property is open to the public for visitation and historical interpretation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Graham&#39;s Forge Mill is a historic grist mill located in the community of Grahams Forge, Wythe County, Virginia. The mill was built about 1890, and is a five-story, rectangular, wood-frame building on a limestone foundation. Atop the cross-gable standing seam metal roof is a cupola with a finial, decorative cresting on the ridges, and a late-Victorian-styled lightning rod. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse with oven / kettle used for hog scalding, corn crib, grain storage facility, oven / kettle remains, and mill dam.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Foster Falls Historic District is a national historic district located near Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the village of Foster Falls. They are primarily industrial and commercial buildings and structures built in the late-19th century. They include the iron furnace stack, the rail bed and frame railroad passenger station , a general store building, and a combination gristmill/sawmill. The district includes the Foster Falls Hotel, a late-Victorian style brick building. The hotel property includes two brick dependencies associated with an orphanage that occupied the hotel building beginning in 1938. It now serves as the headquarters of the New River Trail State Park.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Wytheville Historic District is a national historic district located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 245 contributing buildings in the historic core of the town of Wytheville. They are primarily residential and commercial buildings and structures dating from about the 1830s to early 1940s. Notable buildings include the Fleming K. Rich House , Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Birthplace, Ephraim McGavock House , Holy Trinity Lutheran Church , Wytheville AM&O station , Wythe County Courthouse , George Wythe Hotel , Millwald Theatre , Trinkle Mansion, and Wytheville Municipal Building , The Haller-Gibboney Rock House and St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church are located in the district and listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Avery–Helm Historic District comprises a primarily residential portion of central Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Located on several of Corvalliss earliest plats, the 122 historic houses remaining in the district  present a window into the domestic aspects of the citys development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Brothers Building, also known as Anderson Brothers Book Store, is a historic commercial building located at Charlottesville, Virginia. The original section was built in 1848, and expanded to its present size in 1890–1891. It is a three-story, seven bay Late Victorian style building. It is constructed of brick and has a metal clad facade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Barringer Mansion is a historic home located at 1404 Jefferson Park Avenue in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It features an elaborate turret with garland frieze adorning the cornice, three different styles of windows, and Jacobean chimneys. It was the home of Paul Brandon Barringer , noted physician, scientist, executive, and publisher who became chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia , and later the sixth president of Virginia Tech.</p><br>
<p>In 1967 a subsequent owner converted the large home into apartments. The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation purchased the property in 1981 with plans to use it as an annex to the university&#39;s medical facilities. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is now owned by the University of Virginia and serves as the French Language Residence for students.</p><br>
