{"nrhp_refnum":"90002121","name":"Herndon Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 235-3","See Also: Herndon Depot"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Locust, Spring, Pearl, Monroe, Station and Vine Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Herndon","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.969021931500066,"lon":-77.38768655742189,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 115-acre historic district covering downtown Herndon and surrounding residential neighborhoods in western Fairfax County, Virginia, with buildings dating from 1855 to 1940.","why_significant":"The district is nominated for its association with transportation, tied to the railroad that reached Herndon by 1859 and drew a commercial core around the depot, and for its architecture. It preserves a largely intact small-town collection of houses, commercial buildings, churches and outbuildings, mostly built between 1890 and 1920.","narrative":"Herndon Historic District covers about 115 acres of level ground in western Fairfax County, Virginia, including the downtown commercial area and nearby neighborhoods. The town grew from a mid-nineteenth-century mill, and by 1859 a railroad passed through, with a commercial core forming around the depot. The district holds 239 resources built between 1855 and 1940, most between 1890 and 1920. More than 80 percent of the contributing buildings are houses and their outbuildings, mostly frame with weatherboard siding. Styles include vernacular I-houses, Queen Anne, American Foursquare, Bungalow and Colonial Revival, along with several Sears and Roebuck kit houses. The downtown is mostly brick buildings erected after a 1917 fire that destroyed nearly twenty structures. The 1855 board-and-batten depot, already listed separately, is the focal point beside the 1939 Colonial Revival Town Hall. The district was recognized for its transportation history and its architecture, at the local level of significance.","period_of_significance":"1855-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Bungalow and American Foursquare; Colonial Revival; mixed","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are described as in good to excellent condition; some historic resources face development pressure or neglect, and two feed/grain warehouses and the gas generating building are noted as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.787622-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/6805/41680557/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002121.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680557","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herndon_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712524"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/herndon-historic-district-90002121/"}