{"nrhp_refnum":"10000542","name":"Calverton Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File No. 030-5165"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Area including parts of Bristersburg and Catlett Rds","address_restricted":false,"city":"Calverton","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.63474963050004,"lon":-77.6696491632679,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 51-acre village historic district in Calverton, southeastern Fauquier County, Virginia, along Bristersburg and Catlett roads and the old Orange and Alexandria Railroad. It has 71 contributing and 34 noncontributing resources, mostly dwellings built from the 1880s to the mid-20th century.","why_significant":"Calverton grew up around the railroad after 1852 as a commercial and social center for local farm families. Most mid-19th-century buildings were lost to Civil War activity and a 1944 fire, but the later buildings keep the village's early-to-mid 20th-century character and streetscape. The district shows a range of vernacular forms and styles tied to its railroad and dairy-farming history.","narrative":"Calverton is a small railroad village in southeastern Fauquier County, Virginia, where bristersburg Road crosses the old Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The railroad arrived in 1852, and the community grew as a center of stores, homes and a post office serving nearby farms. Civil War fighting along the line and a 1944 fire destroyed most early buildings, so the surviving district mainly reflects the village of the early to mid-20th century. Its 51 acres hold dwellings, commercial buildings, a church, a former school and a large dairy farm. Maple Hill, built about 1880, is an uncommon local example of the Stick Style. The Landis House was enlarged in 1892 in the Italianate manner, and Wesleyan United Methodist Church dates to 1898. Most other houses are vernacular forms such as the I-house, hall-parlor and gable-end types. The district is valued as an identifiable railroad and farming community with an intact streetscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frederick Curtis (head carpenter, Wesleyan United Methodist Church); Rhodes family (Maple Hill)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Queen Anne); Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions include single dwellings, outbuildings, a general store and a church. The former post office on the Maple Hill property is described as abandoned, and the former school has been converted to apartments.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.218888-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6806/41680625/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000542.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000542/e4b0596b5e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000542/e4b0596b5e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4133Catlett-9614.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4133Catlett-9614.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680625","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calverton_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712122"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/calverton-historic-district-10000542/"}