{"nrhp_refnum":"85000298","name":"Wertland Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Wertland St. between 10th and 14th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.03524640650005,"lon":-78.49664670260553,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 30 buildings along Wertland Street, between Tenth and Fourteenth Streets, just north of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Most houses date from the 1880s to the early 1900s, with the earliest from about 1830.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its architectural and historical ties to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia. It began with the 1830 Wertenbaker House, home of the University's second librarian, and its development paralleled the University's growth. It holds the most undisturbed and cohesive group of Victorian vernacular houses left in Charlottesville and has changed little in about seventy years.","narrative":"Wertland Street is a residential row just north of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Its roughly thirty buildings run between Tenth and Fourteenth Streets and form a cohesive streetscape of Victorian vernacular houses, with a few Federal, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival examples. The oldest is the brick Wertenbaker House of about 1830, built by William Wertenbaker, the University's second librarian, for whose family the street is named. Another early survivor, the McKennie-Miller House, was tied to the publisher of the city's first newspaper. Development as a fashionable neighborhood followed the subdivision of four large tracts in the 1880s, and more than fifteen houses stood by 1910. Large lots and standard setbacks on the north side create an orderly arrangement found nowhere else near the University. The district has changed little in about seventy years, and after decades of conversion to student apartments, many houses are being rehabilitated.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900-","architect_builder":"William Wertenbaker (builder of the Wertenbaker House, 1301 Wertland Street)","architectural_style":"Victorian Vernacular, with Federal, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most houses are owner occupied or rented to University students. Many are being rehabilitated by new owners after a period of decline when large houses were divided into apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.33002-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6786/41678683/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/85000298.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000298/67f0c8937e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000298/67f0c8937e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wertland_east_of_Fourteenth,_Charlottesville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wertland_east_of_Fourteenth,_Charlottesville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678683","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertland_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903069"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/wertland-street-historic-district-85000298/"}