{"nrhp_refnum":"90002165","name":"Blacksburg Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 150-108"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, area N of jct. of Main and Jackson Sts. including sections out along Lee and Progress Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blacksburg","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.23068615300005,"lon":-80.41169277606073,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 72-acre historic district in the center of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, built around Roanoke Street and the town's 1798 sixteen-block grid. It contains 139 contributing and 57 noncontributing resources, including houses, shops, churches and two archaeological sites.","why_significant":"The district illustrates the architectural development of Blacksburg from its 1798 platting through 19th-century growth and its substantial rebuilding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is the largest and best preserved downtown commercial area in Montgomery County and was the county's commercial center. Archaeological testing at the Johnson House and Lybrook's Row also showed it holds information from the historic period.","narrative":"Blacksburg's historic core covers about 72 acres around Roanoke Street, centered on a sixteen-block grid first planned in 1798. It combines a commercial strip along Main Street and College Avenue with surrounding residential neighborhoods and borders the Virginia Polytechnic Institute campus. Buildings range from early log houses and an 1847 Greek Revival church to late nineteenth-century stores such as Deyerle's Store, Gothic Revival churches including Christ Episcopal, and many Bungalow, Foursquare and Colonial Revival houses of the early twentieth century. The district was recognized for its architecture, which shows the town's growth and rebuilding between 1798 and 1940, and for its role as the commercial center of Montgomery County, even ahead of the county seat. Archaeological testing at the Johnson House and the Lybrook's Row site, a former student housing and pottery area, also produced artifacts and evidence of historic-period remains.","period_of_significance":"1798-1940","architect_builder":"Wes Gray (builder); architects Emlyn Littel, Ralph Adams Cram, Eubank and Caldwell, Carneal and Johnston","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Colonial Revival; Late Victorian Gothic","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Still a mix of homes, shops, restaurants, churches and civic uses; the 1847 Presbyterian Church has been adapted several times and partly restored, and the Johnson House was acquired by the town for a park and is slated for restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.954212-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/6788/41678828/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002165.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678828","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksburg_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712033"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/blacksburg-historic-district-90002165/"}