{"nrhp_refnum":"02000622","name":"Roanoke City Market Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"302 Campbell Ave., SE; 9 Church Ave, SE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.27178864800004,"lon":-79.93762604199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Roanoke City Market Historic District in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, adding two brick commercial buildings: the Goria Brothers Grocery Building (302 Campbell Avenue SE, built 1924) and 9 Church Avenue SE (built about 1920).","why_significant":"Both buildings are tied to the commercial history of Roanoke's City Market area and match the district's other buildings in age, scale, materials and style. The Goria Brothers building housed wholesale grocers who served the market. The nomination argues for significance under Criterion A (Commerce/Trade) and Criterion C (Architecture).","narrative":"Two brick commercial buildings were added to Roanoke's City Market Historic District in downtown Roanoke. The larger is the three-story Goria Brothers Grocery Building at 302 Campbell Avenue SE, built in 1924 in a commercial vernacular style with modest Italianate touches. Goria Brothers, Inc. built it as a wholesale grocery warehouse on the former Randolph Wagon Yard site, and later wholesale grocers and a hardware wholesaler used it. Interstate 581 construction led to demolition of surrounding buildings, and the building has been vacant since 1980. The second building, at 9 Church Avenue SE beside the No. 1 Fire Station, is a two-story brick structure built about 1920 for the Campbell Motor Car Company. Later occupants included scale and slicing machine companies, billiards clubs and a women's accessories shop. Modern alterations have hidden much of its Italianate design. Both buildings were included because they are similar in age, scale, materials and style to the district's buildings and were linked to the City Market's commerce.","period_of_significance":"1880-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Commercial Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Goria Brothers building has been vacant since 1980; 9 Church Avenue has been an office since 1989 and has been altered by modern changes.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.68969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6832/41683289/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02000622.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000622/8c0885369b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000622/8c0885369b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ben Schumin","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roanoke_City_Market_District_at_night.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Schumin</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roanoke_City_Market_District_at_night.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83003312","name":"Roanoke City Market Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/roanoke-city-market-historic-district-83003312/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683289","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_City_Market_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7339775"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/roanoke-city-market-historic-district-boundary-increase-02000622/"}