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Rectortown Historic District

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Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Federal

VLR #
  
030-5155

Area
  
46 ha

Added to NRHP
  
27 November 2004

NRHP Reference #
  
04001267

Designated VLR
  
September 8, 2004

Year built
  
1772

Rectortown Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Maidstone, Rectortown, Atoka, Lost Corner and Crenshae Rds., Rectortown, Virginia

Rectortown Historic District is a national historic district located at Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 76 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the rural village of Rectortown. The district includes dwellings dating back to the 18th century, churches, a school, an Odd Fellows hall, a post office, multiple commercial buildings, and several cemeteries that illustrate the town’s growth and development. Notable buildings include the Maidstone Ordinary (c. 1763), the Rector-Slack Log House, the Ashby House (c. 1800), the Georg Mann House, The Brick Store House (c. 1840), Rector’s Warehouse and Station (c. 1835), Denham, Maidstone, Rectortown United Methodist Church (1894), the Jackson-Grant House (1924), Slack’s Store (1890), and the Mt. Olive Odd Fellows Lodge (1935).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is included in the Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District.

References

Rectortown Historic District Wikipedia