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Greenway Historic District

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VLR #
  
021-0963

Area
  
77.33 kmĀ²

Greenway Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by the Shenandoah R., the Warren Co. line, Virginia 340 and VA 618; E side of VA 255, approximately .2 mi. N of jct. with VA 723, Boyce, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Mid 19th Century Revival, Early Republic, Colonial

NRHP Reference #
  
93001133, 97000154, 07001135

Added to NRHP
  
November 4, 1993, February 21, 1997 (Boundary Increase), October 30, 2007 (Boundary Increase)

Designated VLR
  
August 18, 1993, December 4, 1996, September 5, 2007

Greenway Historic District is a national historic district located near Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It encompasses 432 contributing buildings, 23 contributing sites, and 35 contributing structures. The districts includes the agricultural landscape and architectural resources of an area distinctively rural that contains numerous large antebellum estates. The district contributing buildings are primarily farm and estate residences and their associated outbuildings. Other contributing buildings include three schools, five churches, two mills, a gas station, a restaurant, and a railroad station. The contributing structures are mostly corncribs and the contributing sites are mainly cemeteries and ruins of historic buildings. The district contains ten individual properties and two historic districts already listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, with boundary increases in 1997 and 2007.

References

Greenway Historic District Wikipedia