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Cifax Rural Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
92000052

Designated VLR
  
August 21, 1991

Added to NRHP
  
20 February 1992

VLR #
  
009-0254

Area
  
7.284 km²

Cifax Rural Historic District

Location
  
Jct. of VA 644 and VA 643 and surrounding valley area, Cifax, Virginia

Architect
  
Clark, Pendleton S.; Gillette, Charles F.

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Greek Revival

Cifax Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Cifax, Bedford County, Virginia. It encompasses 51 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures. The district includes the dwellings and outbuildings of prominent families, the houses of the poor and middling farmers and the laborers who in part depended on them for employment, and the stores, schools, and churches that served them. Notable buildings include the Dillard-Coffey House, Logwood-Williams House, Old Nazareth Methodist Episcopal Church, Poplar Springs Baptist Church, Cifax School, The Cedars, Noell-Lankford House, Poindexter-Ellett-Higginbotham Farm, and Glen Alpine designed by architect Pendleton S. Clark with landscaping by Charles F. Gillette.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Cifax Rural Historic District Wikipedia