Built 1885 (1885), 1888 NRHP Reference # 79003056 Area 8,000 m² | Built by Schaeffer,Charles S. VLR # 154-5004 Added to NRHP 6 April 1979 | |
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Architectural style Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne | ||
Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute is a historic African American trade school complex located at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. The complex includes the Hill School (1885), the Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church (1885), and the Primary Annex (1888). The Hill School is a 2 1/2 story, cruciform-plan, gable-roof structure set on a low stone foundation. Although the building is stylistically in the Italianate mode, the windows suggest a Queen Anne Revival inspiration. The Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church is a Victorian Gothic brick church building with a gable-roof and projecting southeast corner tower. Connected to the church by a covered passageway is a wood-frame, tent-roof octagon, known as the Primary Annex. A later building associated with the Christiansburg Industrial Institute is the separately listed Edgar A. Long Building built in 1927.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.