{"nrhp_refnum":"91001580","name":"Pulaski South Historic Residential and Industrial District","other_names":["DHR File No. 125-8"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Bertha St., Commerce St., Pierce Ave., 5th St. and Pulaski St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pulaski","county":"Pulaski County","state":"VA","lat":37.04333639150005,"lon":-80.78349491385983,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the southern part of Pulaski, Virginia, along Valley Street and adjacent streets south of Peak Creek. It holds 307 contributing and 30 noncontributing buildings, mostly houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, plus the Bertha Zinc and Mineral Company office, commissary and worker housing.","why_significant":"The district is described as an important collection of buildings that completes the interpretation of Pulaski as an industrial town. It includes the town's earliest settled section and a well-preserved group of company housing tied to Pulaski's first large industry. The housing, including unusual brick rowhouses, shows the form of late-nineteenth-century industrial housing in Southwest Virginia. The pages provided do not give the criteria or the period of significance.","narrative":"South of Peak Creek in Pulaski, Virginia, this district covers the town's earliest settled area along Valley Street and the residential streets that grew around it. It includes 307 contributing buildings, most of them houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many follow vernacular plans such as the T-plan and center-passage house, some with Queen Anne decoration, while later streets add bungalows, foursquares and a few Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival homes. At the western end stand the office, commissary and worker housing of the Bertha Zinc and Mineral Company, Pulaski's first large industry. The attached six-unit brick rowhouses on State Street are unusual for Virginia company towns and may reflect the Welsh background of the plant's first manager and early workers. The plant itself is excluded because of continual change. Other buildings include the 1924 Jefferson School and a former Episcopal chapel from about 1880. Together they show how Pulaski developed as an industrial community.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Gothic, Queen Anne); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival); also vernacular T-plan and center-passage houses and Bungalows","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are described as well preserved, and a limited number of houses were altered in recent decades. The Bertha Zinc plant itself is excluded because of continual alteration. Historic and current functions include dwellings, businesses, a school, churches and manufacturing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.187969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/6827/41682785/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91001580.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001580/e81d852f4a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001580/e81d852f4a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valley_north_of_Chestnut,_Pulaski.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valley_north_of_Chestnut,_Pulaski.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682785","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski_South_Historic_Residential_and_Industrial_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15269149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pulaski-county/pulaski-south-historic-residential-and-industrial-district-91001580/"}