First Calvary Baptist Church
The religious zeal of Norfolk’s growing African American community at the turn of the 20th century was manifested in the prodigious churches erected by the various denominations. Conspicuous among these […]
Attucks Theatre
A landmark of African American popular culture, the Attucks Theatre is one of the country’s few remaining theaters to have been financed, designed, and built exclusively by Blacks. Located in […]
St. Mary’s Church
Dominated by its richly decorated spire, this gleaming stuccoed church is the state’s most elaborate expression of the Early Gothic Revival. Erected in 1858-59, it replaced an earlier church destroyed […]
J. Thomas Newsome House
This fanciful Queen Anne-style residence was the home of Joseph Thomas Newsome and his family. Newsome (1869-1942), was one of the city of Newport News’s most respected African American civic […]
Emmaus Baptist Church
The continuity of this Tidewater Baptist congregation is embodied in its country Greek Revival church, a plain but well-crafted expression of the dignity and moral authority of proven forms. The […]
South Franklin Street Historic District
South Franklin Street in the Montgomery County town of Christiansburg was platted in the 1790s and was gradually built up over the next century. Today the South Franklin Street Historic […]
Yellow Sulphur Springs
Developed in the early 19th century, Yellow Sulphur Springs in Montgomery County afforded its patrons the usual middle-class leisure-time and therapeutic pursuits of the mid-Victorian-era mountain resorts. Prior to the […]
Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute
On a promontory above the Montgomery County town of Christiansburg, the Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute (Hill School) and the Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church, both built in 1885, are monuments in […]
Kentland Farm Historic and Archaeological District
James Randal Kent (1792-1867) assembled the Kentland plantation in the early 19th century, and by 1860 had holdings of 6,000 acres worked by 123 enslaved individuals. Kent completed his immense […]
Pompey Callaway House
This 1910 house in the historically African American section of of the Montgomery County village of Elliston is the individual architectural expression of a formerly enslaved individual, Pompey Callaway, working […]