Maupin-Maury House
Dr. Socrates Maupin built this house in 1846 in the city of Richmond, adjacent to the Brockenbrough House, which would later serve as the White House of the Confederacy. Dr. […]
Norwood-Wingina Rural Historic District
Encompassing about 2,930 acres along the James River in southern Nelson County, the present-day Norwood-Wingina Rural Historic District was first occupied for thousands of years by the Monacans and their […]
Arrowhead
Arrowhead, located on the north side of the James River in the Norwood-Wingina Rural Historic District section of Nelson County, is important as the one-time residence of Colonel Wirt Robinson […]
American Tobacco Company South Richmond Complex Historic District
A post-Civil War surge in the nationwide popularity of cigarettes and other tobacco products energized Richmond’s tobacco industry, beginning in 1874, with the construction of storage and manufacturing facilities. The […]
NASA Langley Research Center Historic District
Established in 1917, during World War I, originally as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory and the nation’s first civilian aeronautics laboratory, the NASA Langley Research Center in the city of […]
Leander McCormick Observatory
McCormick Observatory is named for Leander McCormick of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, who donated a 26-inch refracting telescope to the University of Virginia after Washington College (now Washington and […]
Green Pastures
Green Pastures is a 236-acre hunt-country estate containing a Colonial Revival–style main house, stable, barns, cottages, and agricultural outbuildings. Designed by New York architect Penrose V. Stout for industrialist Robert […]
Aviary
An adaptation of the Queen Anne style, this pagoda-like building is the state’s earliest known municipal aviary and is an example of the civic amenities resulting from turn-of-the-20th-century private philanthropy. […]
Variable Density Tunnel
Called the VDT, the Variable Density Tunnel is considered the most significant of NASA Langley Research Center‘s ground-based historic properties. Spurred by the European supremacy in aircraft design, a 1915 […]
Eight-Foot High-Speed Tunnel
Using concrete, the material of choice for projects funded by the Public Works Administration, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics completed this pioneering Eight-Foot High-Speed Tunnel in 1936. The most […]
