{"nrhp_refnum":"88001216","name":"Pulaski Historic Residential District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Eleventh St., Prospect, Madison and Washington Aves., Second St., and Henry Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pulaski","county":"Pulaski County","state":"VA","lat":37.05581185500006,"lon":-80.78206227469877,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the town of Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia, made up of 363 buildings, mostly frame and brick houses from the 1880s through the 1940s, laid out on an 1880s developer's plat north of Peak Creek.","why_significant":"The district is a largely intact late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrial town neighborhood, with grand homes of factory managers and modest workers' housing. Its plan, with boulevards, a residential square and a picturesque curving Prospect Avenue, is described as rare in Virginia. It also contains a range of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and vernacular house types.","narrative":"Pulaski's historic residential district covers most of the neighborhood north of the town's commercial core, beside Peak Creek in Pulaski County, Virginia. It holds 363 buildings, including 321 single-family houses, eight churches, a former high school, a hospital and the municipal waterworks. Most contributing buildings are frame or brick houses from the 1880s to the 1940s. The streets follow plats drawn for the Pulaski Land and Improvement Company in the 1880s, with numbered streets, named avenues, tree-planted boulevards and a small square at Washington Avenue and Sixth Street. Prospect Avenue, with its curving form, holds the grandest homes of factory managers, such as the Queen Anne-style Taylor House, while Henry Avenue has workers' housing. Queen Anne houses gave way to Colonial Revival ones after 1900, and many vernacular center-passage and T-plan houses survive. The planning is described as rare in Virginia and among Appalachian industrial towns.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, vernacular center-passage and T-plan houses, with Bungalow, Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most contributing buildings are described as intact and well-maintained; 85 of 363 buildings are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.955776-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/6827/41682781/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/88001216.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001216/19351b62a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001216/19351b62a0-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_south_of_Sixth,_Pulaski.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_south_of_Sixth,_Pulaski.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682781","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski_Historic_Residential_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15269147"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pulaski-county/pulaski-historic-residential-district-88001216/"}