{"nrhp_refnum":"85001349","name":"Southwest Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Mountain View","St. John's Episcopal Church"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Salem Ave., Jefferson St., Roanoke River and 20th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.26752736800003,"lon":-79.9570013619521,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large urban residential historic district covering the southwest quadrant of Roanoke, Virginia, with about 105 city blocks and 1,658 structures, developed mainly between 1882 and 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as the most architecturally cohesive residential neighborhood in inner-city Roanoke and one of the largest historic districts in Virginia. It reflects the city's early growth tied to the Norfolk and Western Railway and land companies. It holds a remarkable collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century houses, churches and schools in Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and related styles.","narrative":"Covering roughly 105 blocks in the southwest quadrant of Roanoke, this district holds 1,658 structures, most of them houses built between 1882 and 1930. It includes three neighborhoods: Old Southwest, Mountain View and Hurt Park. Land companies, including the West End Land Company and a Norfolk and Western Railway subsidiary, laid out and promoted the area for railroad officials, businessmen and middle-income families. Most buildings date from 1900 to 1910, and the common type is a square frame or brick house with a tall hipped roof and a classical porch. Larger examples include Queen Anne residences on Campbell and Patterson avenues, three Shingle-style model homes on 2nd Street, and Colonial Revival mansions such as Mountain View, designed by H.H. Huggins. The district also contains Highland Park, churches, a synagogue, Highland Park School and the Tudor Revival Jefferson High School. It is considered significant for the cohesion and integrity of this early 20th-century streetscape, with few intrusions.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"H.H. Huggins (architect, Mountain View and Trinity Methodist Church); H. Courey Richards (architect, Jefferson High School); Shockey and Field (contractors); T.S. Simmons (contractor); John J. Sheahan (contractor)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Bungalow, American Foursquare, Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as largely intact, with only about ninety noncontributing structures considered intrusions; condition is rated excellent to fair with some deterioration and alteration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.044529-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/6833/41683313/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/85001349.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001349/262b2d2317-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001349/262b2d2317-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Patriarca12","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southwest_Historic_District_Roanoke,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriarca12</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:Southwest_Historic_District_Roanoke,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"11000984","name":"Wasena Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/wasena-historic-district-11000984/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683313","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Historic_District_(Roanoke,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/southwest-historic-district-85001349/"}