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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

George W. Watkins School

The New Kent School (White) and George W. Watkins School (Black), both located in New Kent County, are associated with the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case Green v. New Kent […]

First Baptist Church

Constructed in 1956, the two-story Colonial Revival-style First Baptist Church in Williamsburg is nationally important as home to the country’s oldest and continuously active black congregation, a religious community that […]

Diamond Hill Baptist Church

Diamond Hill Baptist Church, Lynchburg’s second oldest African American church, was a pivotal local player in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Under the leadership of Rev. Virgil Wood, […]

Zion Poplars Baptist Church

Zion Poplars Baptist Church, located in a rural setting near the Gloucester County seat of Gloucester Court House, was named for a grove of seven poplars, four of which remain […]

Robert Tynes House

Constructed in 1750, the Robert Tynes House is typical of the 18th-century Tidewater house forms found in the Chesapeake Bay regions of Virginia and Maryland. However, most such houses were […]