{"nrhp_refnum":"04000555","name":"Stanardsville Historic District","other_names":["DHR File no. 302-0012"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Main St., from Monroe Avel. to Lambs Ln., including parts of Madison Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stanardsville","county":"Greene County","state":"VA","lat":38.326654161500045,"lon":-78.43882690264407,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Transportation","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the courthouse town of Stanardsville, county seat of Greene County, Virginia, laid out as a town in 1794 by William Stanard. It holds 168 contributing and 81 noncontributing resources, including Courthouse Square, commercial blocks, houses, churches and cemeteries.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Stanardsville as one of a handful of intact Piedmont courthouse towns that grew along transportation routes, with a townscape that survives much as it did in the late 19th century. It preserves buildings from the Stanard era, the post-1838 county-seat building campaign, and later 19th- and early 20th-century growth. Its architecture ranges from Greek Revival to Queen Anne, Bungalow and Moderne.","narrative":"Stanardsville, the county seat of Greene County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is preserved as a historic district of 168 contributing and 81 noncontributing resources. The town was incorporated in 1794 on 45 acres divided into half-acre lots by William Stanard. Few buildings remain from his era, among them two survey markers and a possible terraced garden. A major building campaign followed the creation of Greene County in 1838, producing the 1839 Courthouse on its two-acre square, the Lafayette Hotel, brick stores and Greek Revival houses along Main Street. Later additions include Queen Anne and Bungalow houses, four churches, five cemeteries and granite memorial obelisks. Fires and a 1979 explosion in the clerk's office affected the square, yet the townscape still resembles its late nineteenth-century appearance. The district is valued as an intact example of a Virginia courthouse town.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival (Carpenter Gothic), Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Moderne and vernacular forms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most resources remain in use as dwellings, businesses, government offices, churches and cemeteries; the district's four churches survive in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.693254-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/6810/41681021/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000555.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000555/3d7fab2427-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000555/3d7fab2427-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sabonarola","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lafayette_Inn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabonarola</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:Lafayette_Inn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681021","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanardsville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713253"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/greene-county/stanardsville-historic-district-04000555/"}