{"nrhp_refnum":"82004598","name":"Beverley Historic District","other_names":["See Also:National Valley Bank"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"U.S. 250 and VA 254","address_restricted":false,"city":"Staunton (Independent City)","county":"Staunton","state":"VA","lat":38.14949569500007,"lon":-79.07258709976378,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A compact, mainly commercial historic district of about 30 acres and roughly 150 buildings in downtown Staunton, Virginia, centered on Beverley Street (the town's Main Street) and following the street grid laid out in the 1740s.","why_significant":"The district preserves a well-kept collection of mostly post-Civil War commercial buildings, with brick Italianate the dominant style, set on the original town grid. It contains an unusually large number of professionally designed buildings for a small town, many by local architect T. J. Collins, who practiced in Staunton from 1891 to 1912. Notable landmarks include the old YMCA, the Masonic Temple, the Augusta County Courthouse and National Valley Bank.","narrative":"Downtown Staunton's Beverley Historic District covers about 30 acres and eleven square blocks, with roughly 150 buildings. Beverley Street, the city's Main Street, runs east-west through the middle, and the streets still follow the grid laid out in the 1740s by William Beverley and surveyor Thomas Lewis. Little remains of the 18th-century frontier village. The commercial core is instead a well-preserved group of 19th-century buildings, mostly dating from after the Civil War. Brick Italianate buildings of two to four stories give the area its cohesion, while stone, terra cotta and Romanesque, Queen Anne and Neo-Classical designs add variety. Heavy cornices, decorated lintels and stained glass survive, especially on upper floors. An unusual number of the buildings were professionally designed, many by local architect T. J. Collins, who worked in Staunton from 1891 to 1912. Landmarks include the old YMCA, the Masonic Temple, the courthouse and National Valley Bank. The hilly setting gives the downtown a varied skyline.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"T. J. Collins (also Collins and Hackett; T.J. Collins & Son); I.E.A. Rose, supervising architect of the Masonic Temple; Hulmboe & Lafferty (B.P.O.E. Lodge)","architectural_style":"Predominantly Italianate commercial, with Victorian-era revivals, Romanesque Revival, Beaux Arts and Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Average building condition is described as good, with several buildings in excellent condition and some facades being renovated. Many upper floors above storefronts are vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.729958-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/6837/41683777/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004598.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004598/27fd33a0df-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004598/27fd33a0df-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Weatherdude at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coffee_on_the_Corner_building,_Staunton,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Weatherdude at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coffee_on_the_Corner_building,_Staunton,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16823167"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/staunton/beverley-historic-district-82004598/"}