Architect Multiple NRHP Reference # 94000059 Designated VLR December 8, 1993 Year built 1832 | Architectural style Multiple VLR # 035-0151 Area 14 ha Added to NRHP 25 February 1994 | |
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Location Area surrounding Greenbriar Branch Rd. and State Route 42, Newport, Virginia | ||
Newport Historic District is a national historic district located at Newport, Giles County, Virginia. It encompasses 50 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the rural village of Newport. The district includes primarily freestanding single-family dwellings or store buildings of one or two stories, featuring wood frame construction, wood siding or ornamental metal sheathing, front porches, and associated outbuildings. Notable buildings include the Epling-Dunkley[or Dunklee]-Smith House (1820s-1830s), Keister-Miller House (1846), Robert Payne House (1850s), Payne-Price House, the Miller Building (c. 1902), the Pent Taylor Store (c. 1902), the Miller Brothers General Mercantile Store (c. 1902), F.E. Dunkley [Dunklee] Store (c. 1902-1903), Pasterfield House (1903), Dr. Walter Miller House (1903-1904), Albert Price House (1904), Methodist Parsonage (1909), Newport Methodist Church (1850s, 1906), and Sinking Creek Valley Bank (1927).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is included in the Greater Newport Rural Historic District.