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North End Historic District (Newport News, Virginia)

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NRHP Reference #
  
86001999

Designated VLR
  
June 17, 1986

Year built
  
1920

VLR #
  
121-0043

Area
  
37 ha

Added to NRHP
  
28 August 1986

North End Historic District (Newport News, Virginia)

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Sixty-eighth St., Warwick Blvd., Fiftieth St., and Huntington Ave., Newport News, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian

North End Historic District is a national historic district located at Newport News, Virginia. It encompasses 451 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Newport News. It is a compact, middle-class and upper middle-class residential neighborhood that arose during the period 1900-1935 in association with the nearby Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The neighborhood includes notable examples of the Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow styles. Notable buildings include the Walter A. Pos House (1902), John Livesay House (1906), J. E. Warren House (1905), W. L. Shumate House (1915), and Willet House (c. 1930).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

References

North End Historic District (Newport News, Virginia) Wikipedia