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Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute

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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

Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute

Location
  
570 High St., Christiansburg, Virginia

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.

References

Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute Wikipedia