{"nrhp_refnum":"87001809","name":"Culpeper Historic District","other_names":["VDHL File No. 204-20","See Also:Hill, A. P., Boyhood Home"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Edmonson St., Southern RR, Stevens, & West Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Culpeper","county":"Culpeper County","state":"VA","lat":38.47243054650005,"lon":-77.99538634084215,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Military","Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 18 blocks in the town of Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, bounded roughly by Edmondson Street, the Southern Railroad, Stevens Street and West Street. It contains 130 contributing buildings, including 11 outbuildings and the Confederate Memorial, plus 23 noncontributing buildings.","why_significant":"The visible portion of the form (Section 7 only; the Section 8 statement is not in the text) describes a town that grew around its 1749 county courthouse and expanded after the Orange and Alexandria Railroad arrived in 1853. The district preserves government, school, church, commercial, industrial and residential buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, with coherent brick commercial streetscapes and railroad-related warehouses.","narrative":"Culpeper's historic district covers roughly eighteen blocks of a Piedmont Virginia town that began with the county courthouse established in 1749 and became a town in 1759. The present courthouse, a brick Jeffersonian Revival building by Samuel Proctor, dates from 1874. The 1853 arrival of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad spurred warehouses and industry near the tracks, and the 1904 Southern Railway Station remains a focal point. East Davis Street holds a continuous row of late 19th- and early 20th-century brick commercial buildings with stepped parapets, corbeling and painted wall signs. Four churches, early schools and a range of houses, from late Federal and Greek Revival to Italianate, Queen Anne and Bungalow, add variety. The A.P. Hill Boyhood Home was already listed separately. The district counts 130 contributing and 23 noncontributing buildings, along with the Confederate Memorial dedicated in 1911.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Proctor (county courthouse, 1874); E.A. Walter (Municipal Building, 1928)","architectural_style":"Mixed: Jeffersonian Revival, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, American Foursquare, Bungalow and vernacular commercial and industrial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, altered, on its original site; the district is occupied. Some buildings are noted as vacant, and some lots are vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.582896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/6803/41680305/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/87001809.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001809/e832835936-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001809/e832835936-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Calvin Beale","credit_html":"Calvin Beale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culpeper_County_Courthouse,_Culpeper_(Culpeper_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680305","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpeper_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/culpeper-county/culpeper-historic-district-87001809/"}