Rock Run School

Rock Run School, a one-story frame building, once served a rural African American community in Henry County from the early 1880s through the mid-20th century. The building is a rare […]

Shannon Cemetery

Shannon Cemetery is highly significant for its association with ethnic history in Giles County, and for the diversity and quality of its memorial art. The cemetery occupies two adjacent ridges […]

Gainsboro Historic District

The Gainsboro Historic District, first settled in 1834 and the oldest neighborhood in Roanoke, contains a full range of late-19th-century to mid-20th-century residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Arising around the […]

First Baptist Church

With its two towers—one topped by a spire—defining Lexington’s skyline, First Baptist Church, originally known as Lexington African Baptist Church, is one of the downtown’s most visible historic buildings. Constructed […]

Ralph Bunche High School

The modest style and size of Ralph Bunche High School in King George County belie its importance to the civil rights struggle in Virginia and the U.S. Its construction in […]

Second Union School

The Second Union School was built in 1918 in western Goochland County through the critical support of the Julius Rosenwald fund. Structurally unaltered since it was erected, the one-story school […]

Charles B. Holt House

The Holt Rock House is an Arts and Crafts-style bungalow in Charlottesville. Charles B. Holt, an African American with a building, contracting, and carpentry business, built his house 1925-26, when […]

Jefferson School

Jefferson School was central to the local African American community’s educational, social, and political history during the 20th century in the city of Charlottesville. The first school on the property, […]

Fairmount School

Built circa 1895 in a simplified style with Gothic Revival details, the Fairmount School is one of two such schools remaining in Richmond (the other is Randolph School, listed in […]