{"nrhp_refnum":"96001051","name":"West Point Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 325-02"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Kirby, Main, and Lee Sts. from 1st through 13th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Point","county":"King William County","state":"VA","lat":37.531557847000045,"lon":-76.7966258004061,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Commerce","Transportation","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the town of West Point, Virginia, on a peninsula where the Pamunkey and Mattaponi rivers meet. It holds 255 contributing resources, mostly buildings from the mid-19th century to the 1940s, on a grid of streets from First to Thirteenth and along Kirby, Main and Lee Streets.","why_significant":"The district is noted for the variety of its late-19th- and early-20th-century architecture, including Victorian vernacular, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival and Neoclassical buildings. It reflects West Point's growth as a commercial port, railroad terminus and resort town, followed by industrial growth tied to a 1920s pulp mill. Its physical character has changed little since the 1940s.","narrative":"West Point sits at the tip of a peninsula where the Pamunkey and Mattaponi rivers converge, and its historic district preserves the look of a small southern river town. Laid out on a grid of half-acre lots, it contains mostly houses, along with churches, banks, government buildings and a row of brick commercial buildings on Main Street. No buildings predate the mid-19th century, because fires during the Civil War and in 1903 destroyed much of the early town. The surviving architecture shows the town's growth as a port, railroad terminus and resort destination, then its later expansion after a pulp mill opened in the 1920s. Styles include Victorian Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Craftsman, plus two Sears mail-order houses. Notable buildings include St. John's Episcopal Church of 1882, the 1931 post office and the 1923 Citizens and Exchange Bank. Few buildings have been added since the 1940s, and tree-lined streets and long rows of porches remain.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Local builder S. R. Donahue (Ware House); contractor William C. Davis (Bland House)","architectural_style":"Victorian Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district has changed little since the 1940s, and Main Street storefronts are being restored. The former dress factory at 225 Fifth Street is described as vacant, but the inventory says it is used for storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.777032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/6814/41681456/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/96001051.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001051/8c2685b2a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001051/8c2685b2a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"self","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_office,_West_Point,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">self</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_office,_West_Point,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Historic_District_(West_Point,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7986260"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-william-county/west-point-historic-district-96001051/"}