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Marion Historic District (Marion, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
00000888

Area
  
53 ha

VLR #
  
119-0012

Marion Historic District (Marion, Virginia)

Location
  
Roughly along Main, Cherry, Strother, Lee, North College and College Sts.; W. Cherry, E. Main, N. Main, Maple, N. Chestnut, Broad & N. Commerce Sts., Marion, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Beaux Arts, Queen Anne, et al.

Added to NRHP
  
August 2, 2000, July 28, 2011 (Boundary Increase)

Designated VLR
  
June 14, 2000, December 18, 2008

Marion Historic District is a national historic district located at Marion, Smyth County, Virginia. The district includes 361 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Marion. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and governmental buildings primarily dating from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Sheffey Loom House (c. 1855), Odd Fellows Lodge (c. 1860), Look & Lincoln Wagon Factory warehouse (c. 1880), the Beaux-Arts style Marion County Courthouse (1905), Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church, Courtview Building (1890s), Marion High School (1907-1908), Marion Junior College (1912), the Overall Factory (c. 1920), Weiler Building (c. 1930), Bank of Marion (1922), Royal Oak Presbyterian Church (1923), Marion Municipal Building (1935), Marion Post Office (1936), and a Lustron house (1948). Also located in the district are the separately listed Hotel Lincoln, Lincoln Theatre, Marion Male Academy, and Norfolk & Western Railway Depot.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, with a boundary increase in 2011.

References

Marion Historic District (Marion, Virginia) Wikipedia