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West End Historic District (Suffolk, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1865 (1865)

Area
  
31 ha

VLR #
  
133-5040

West End Historic District (Suffolk, Virginia)

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Causey Ave., Seaboard Coast Lines RR tracks, Pender St., Wellons St., Linden Ave., and RR tracks; Roughly bounded by Wellons, Washington & Smith Sts., Suffolk, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Queen Anne

NRHP Reference #
  
03001433, 04001277 (Boundary Increase)

Added to NRHP
  
January 16, 2004, November 27, 2004 (Boundary Increase)

West End Historic District is a national historic district located at Suffolk, Virginia. The district encompasses 201 contributing buildings and 93 contributing structures in a primarily residential section of the city of Suffolk. The district includes buildings dating from the last decade of the 19th century through the first four decades of the 20th century in a variety of popular architectural styles including Queen Anne and Folk Victorian. The residences were developed to support the growing upper-, middle-, and working-class populations. Notable buildings include the J. C. Causey, Jr. House, Oxford United Methodist Church (1922), and West End Baptist Church (1938).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, with a boundary increase in 2004.

References

West End Historic District (Suffolk, Virginia) Wikipedia