{"nrhp_refnum":"87001881","name":"Berryville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of US 7 & 340, Main, Church, & Buckmarsh Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berryville","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.15109678150003,"lon":-77.98232140576118,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering much of the town of Berryville, the county seat of Clarke County in the lower Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. The town was laid out in 1798 and the district contains 314 contributing buildings, 62 noncontributing buildings and one contributing object.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a well-preserved record of nearly 200 years of town development, with commercial, residential, governmental, religious and industrial buildings. It includes the 1838 courthouse, late 19th-century commercial blocks and the railroad-era industrial area. The surrounding rural setting and the lack of later construction help preserve the town's character.","narrative":"Berryville, the seat of Clarke County in Virginia's lower Shenandoah Valley, was laid out in 1798 where two colonial roads crossed. The historic district covers much of the town, with 314 contributing buildings, 62 noncontributing buildings and a Confederate memorial. The commercial center has one- and two-story brick buildings from the late 19th century, some with cast-iron storefronts. North of it stands the 1838 Clarke County Courthouse, a temple-form Roman Revival building designed by county justice David Meade, near the Italianate Grace Episcopal Church of 1857. Houses range from a few late 18th- and early 19th-century Federal and Greek Revival dwellings to many late 19th-century frame vernacular houses and early 20th-century Colonial Revival, Bungalow and Foursquare homes. A railroad arrived in 1879 and prompted a building boom, leaving a mill, grain warehouses and a 1910 depot at the eastern edge of town. Little construction after the 1930s has altered the streetscapes, and open orchard country surrounds the town.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"David Meade (designer of the 1838 Clarke County Courthouse)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow and vernacular types","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as occupied, in excellent to fair condition, with mixed private, commercial, government, educational and religious uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.379924-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/6802/41680224/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/87001881.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001881/a5d2e2f747-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001881/a5d2e2f747-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Acroterion","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coiner%27s_Department_Store_Berryville_VA1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Acroterion</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coiner%27s_Department_Store_Berryville_VA1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680224","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berryville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713970"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/berryville-historic-district-87001881/"}