VLR # 123-0094 Area 81 ha | Address Petersburg, VA 23803, USA Year built 1846 | |
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Location Roughly bounded by Surrey Lane, St. Jefferson, Mars and Harrison Sts., Jct. of E Wythe and S. Jefferson, from SE of orig. HD to Lieutenant Run, Along both sides of Harrison St. at SW corner, Petersburg, Virginia NRHP Reference # 80004315, 06000030 (Boundary Increase) Added to NRHP May 23, 1980, February 10, 2006 (Boundary Increase) Designated VLR February 26, 1979; December 7, 2005 Similar Historic Petersburg Foundation, Petersburg National Battlefield, Petersburg Old Town Historic D, Poplar Lawn Park, Old Blandford Church | ||
Poplar Lawn Historic District is a national historic district located at Petersburg, Virginia. The district includes 372 contributing buildings and consists primarily of mid- to late-19th-century, single-family residences grouped about a two-block green. It includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Colonial Revival, Second Empire, and Italianate style residential architecture. Notable buildings include the Bolling-Zimmer House (c. 1830), St. Stephen’s Church (c. 1912), Zion Baptist Church (c. 1880s), William T. Double House (c. 1855), the Waterworks (1856), Dr. Robert Broadnax House (1858), Market Street Methodist Church Parsonage (c. 1905), Maurice Finn House (c. 1904), and the Frank M. D'Alton Double House (c. 1911).
The district also includes Poplar Lawn Park, featuring a stone basin of uncertain age that is five feet across, and having an oval-shaped depression a foot wide and a foot deep. It is traditionally known as "Pocahontas' bath", though there is no proof she ever used it.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, with a boundary increase in 2006.