{"nrhp_refnum":"84000658","name":"Hotel Danville","other_names":["Municipal Building and City Market","VHLC File No. 108-27"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danville (Independent City)","county":"Danville","state":"VA","lat":36.58708824900003,"lon":-79.39456924599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ten-story, V-shaped high-rise hotel at 600 Main Street in downtown Danville, Virginia, built 1926-1928, with an attached three-story annex that survives from the c. 1890 Municipal Building and City Market.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is locally significant for architecture, commerce and communications. It reflects Danville's growth as a regional tobacco and textile center in the 1920s and is the city's tallest building and a visual landmark. It also housed the Capitol Theater and the city's first commercial radio station, and its site long served as a focus of public life.","narrative":"Rising ten stories above downtown Danville, this V-shaped hotel at 600 Main Street was built in 1926-1928 in the Neo-Adamesque style, with red brick walls and gray terra cotta trim. It was designed by H.A. Underwood & Co. of Raleigh for the furniture firm Clements, Chism and Parker, and it included the Capitol Theater. An attached three-story annex is the surviving north wing of the c. 1890 Municipal Building and City Market, which once filled the whole site. The hotel reflects Danville's prosperity in the 1920s, when tobacco warehousing and textile mills made the city a major regional trade center. It hosted travelers arriving by rail and on the Piedmont Highway, and in 1930 radio station WBTM placed its antenna on the roof. The hotel closed in 1975 after costs rose and patronage fell. A certified rehabilitation in 1982-83 converted the upper floors to apartments and kept the ornate two-story lobby and grand stair.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"H.A. Underwood & Co., architects of Raleigh, NC; Angle-Blackford Company, contractor; Clements, Chism & Parker, developer; William M. Poindexter, architect of the 1890 Municipal Building","architectural_style":"Neo-Adamesque (Federal Revival); annex originally Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Closed as a hotel in 1975; rehabilitated in 1982-83 and reopened in 1984 as residential apartments, with the historic lobby retained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.207629-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/6803/41680369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/84000658.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000658/73e86c76af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000658/73e86c76af-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Danville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Danville.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93000830","name":"Downtown Danville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/downtown-danville-historic-district-93000830/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Danville","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15225802"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/danville/hotel-danville-84000658/"}