{"nrhp_refnum":"06000352","name":"Paeonian Springs Historic District","other_names":["Vdhr #053-5072"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Area inc. parts of Berry Bramble Ln., Catoctin Ridge St., Charles Town Pike, Highland Circle, and Simpson Circle","address_restricted":false,"city":"Paeonian Springs","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.14866715450006,"lon":-77.61719207822685,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic village district of about 47 acres in Paeonian Springs, western Loudoun County, Virginia, about 4 miles west of Leesburg. It was founded in 1890 as a railroad-served spring resort and bottling community and holds 59 contributing and 22 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is listed under Criteria A and C for Architecture and Social history. It preserves a largely intact late-19th and early-20th-century village laid out by the Paeonian Springs Company to market healing spring water and attract summer visitors by rail. Its dwellings, former boardinghouses, former bottling plant and other buildings show popular styles and vernacular forms of the period.","narrative":"Paeonian Springs is a small village in western Loudoun County, Virginia, laid out in 1890 by the Paeonian Springs Company, led by Theodore and John Milton. The founders aimed to bottle and sell water from a natural spring promoted for its healing properties, shipping it by rail to Washington and drawing summer visitors. Roughly 180 lots were platted, though only a handful were built on. The community thrived for about thirty years before federal food and drug regulation and the automobile led to its decline. The district covers about 47 acres and includes 59 contributing resources, mostly dwellings dating from about 1880 to 1910. They range from vernacular I-houses and side-passage houses to Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Craftsman examples. Surviving landmarks include the former bottling plant, two former boardinghouses, a former school and the public springhouse. The train station is gone, but the village retains its late-19th-century character and architectural integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Gothic Revival); Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Mostly residential today. The former hotels, schools, stores and bottling plant have closed and been adapted to new uses; the community still has a post office, and the railroad line is now a bike path.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.999411-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6816/41681635/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000352.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000352/b4a74fc22c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000352/b4a74fc22c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PAEONIAN_SPRINGS_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_LOUDOUN_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:PAEONIAN_SPRINGS_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_LOUDOUN_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681635","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paeonian_Springs_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713036"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/paeonian-springs-historic-district-06000352/"}