Carver Residential Historic District
Carver Residential Historic District contains a collection of modest dwellings from two phases of development. The first occurred in the 1840s and 1850s with the construction of brick dwellings for […]
Barton Heights Cemeteries
Barton Heights Cemeteries are six contiguous, and originally separate, burial grounds in the city of Richmond that appear today as one cemetery. The individual cemeteries, originally known as Phoenix (Cedarwood), […]
Burrell Memorial Hospital
Burrell Memorial Hospital was constructed between 1953 and 1955 as a facility for the treatment of Roanoke’s African American residents. The brick four-story building was designed in the International Style […]
Lylburn Downing School
Lylburn Downing School was completed in 1927 and expanded in 1940 to provide primary and secondary school education for Lexington’s African American community. Lexington blacks formed a Home and School […]
Buena Vista Colored School
Buena Vista Colored School stands today as a little-altered brick building for the segregated education of African American students. One room was constructed in 1914 on land owned by First […]
East Suffolk School Complex
The East Suffolk School Complex is a series of three contributing buildings and two non-contributing sites, located along the Shingle Creek in the Rosemont neighborhood in Suffolk. The elementary school, […]
Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery
Butterwood Methodist Church, located in rural Dinwiddie County, was one of three 18th-century chapels in what became Bath Parish in 1752. Devereux Jarratt, an important figure in the “Great Awakening” […]
Mt. Olive Methodist Episcopal Church
Constructed by ex-slaves from the nearby Oatlands plantation as a meeting place for worship, for mutual aid societies, and the community, the Mount Olive Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated in […]
Rectortown Historic District
The Rectortown Historic District recognizes this Fauquier County village that evolved from an 18th-century crossroads into a local rail center during the mid-19th-century. The Virginia House of Burgesses established Rectortown […]
Clermont
Characterized by rolling pasturelands near the Shenandoah River and numerous historical outbuildings, Clermont, a 360-acre farmstead, has remained intact for over 250 years and still affords undisturbed views of the […]