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Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District

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Architect
  
Loewy, Raymond; et al.

VLR #
  
128-5432

Added to NRHP
  
27 January 1999

NRHP Reference #
  
99000076

Area
  
2 ha

Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District

Location
  
88 and 108 Jefferson St. NW, and 209 Shenandoah Ave., Roanoke, Virginia

Built
  
1896 (1896), 1903, 1931, 1905, 1949

Architectural style
  
Classical Revival, Art Deco, Moderne

Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District is a national historic district located at Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses three contributing buildings constructed by the Norfolk and Western Railway. They are the Neoclassical Revival style General Office Building-South (1896, 1903); the Art Deco period General Office Building-North (1931); and the Moderne style Passenger Station (1905, 1949). The Passenger Station was renovated by noted architect Raymond Loewy in 1949. The Passenger Station is occupied by the O. Winston Link Museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District Wikipedia