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Tazewell Historic District

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VLR #
  
158-0005

Year built
  
1866

Boundary increase
  
August 15, 2016

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 2002

Tazewell Historic District

Location
  
Main, Church, Tower, and Pine Sts., Central Ave., and Fincastle Turnpike, Tazewell, Virginia

Architect
  
Pierce, William; Bryan, Andrew J.

Architectural style
  
Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian

NRHP Reference #
  
02000519 (original) 16000541 (increase)

Tazewell Historic District is a national historic district located at Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia. The district encompasses 112 contributing buildings in central business district and surrounding residential area of the town of Tazewell. The most notable building is the Tazewell County Courthouse. It was built in 1874, and rebuilt in 1913 in a Classical Revival style. Other notable buildings include the Old Jail (c. 1832), Clinch Valley News Building, Stras Memorial Episcopal Church (1884), Tazewell Christian Church (1898), Clinch Valley Bank (1889), J. A. Greever Building (1914), Greever and Gillespie Law Office Building (1897), Tazewell High School (1931), Tazewell Masonic Lodge #62 (1931), Tazewell Post Office (1936), and Tazewell Presbyterian Church (1924, 1959).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 with a boundary increase in 2016.

References

Tazewell Historic District Wikipedia