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East Radford Historic District

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Built
  
1892 (1892)

NRHP Reference #
  
00000491

Area
  
57 ha

Architect
  
Lorton, W.D.; et al.

Opened
  
1892

Added to NRHP
  
11 May 2000

East Radford Historic District

Location
  
Norwood, Stockton, and Downey Sts., and Grove Ave., Radford, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, et al.

VLR #
  
126-0084, 126-0084-0226

East Radford Historic District is a national historic district located at Radford, Virginia. It encompasses 302 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a mixed residential and commercial section of Radford, comprising most of the historic boundaries of the town of Central Depot. It was developed between 1866 and 1916, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Shanks House, the Ward-Carter House, Fraternity Building, Carson's Drug Store, Shumate Store, Alleghany Hotel, Simon Block, Bond Building, Williamson House, Maplehurst (the Arthur Roberts House), Dobbins Apartments, Belle Heth School (c. 1912), Grove Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (1913), M. Jackson Hardware Company (1918), and Farmers' and Merchants' Bank.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

East Radford Historic District Wikipedia