{"nrhp_refnum":"98000845","name":"Edinburg Historic District","other_names":["215-1"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Stony Creek Blvd., Shenandoah and Railroad Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edinburg","county":"Shenandoah County","state":"VA","lat":38.824998715500044,"lon":-78.56679910446735,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Transportation","Commerce","Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 128-acre historic district covering much of the town of Edinburg in Shenandoah County, Virginia, laid out on a grid along the Valley Turnpike (Main Street) and Stony Creek. It holds 304 contributing resources spanning about 160 years, from 1787 to the mid-twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district is described as a cohesive, well-preserved Shenandoah Valley town with an intact streetscape and few modern intrusions. Its houses, commercial buildings, churches, school, mill and cemeteries show the town's growth from late-eighteenth-century log buildings through Victorian and early twentieth-century styles. The nomination marks it as locally significant.","narrative":"Edinburg's historic district covers 128 acres of a Shenandoah Valley town incorporated in 1852, though settlement began decades earlier. Streets follow a grid centered on Main Street, the old Valley Turnpike, which runs east-west here because of a bend in Stony Creek. The district holds 304 contributing resources, mostly houses with outbuildings such as meathouses, chicken coops and garages. It also includes commercial buildings, churches, a school, two cemeteries, bridges and the Edinburg Mill, built 1848 to 1850. The earliest known building is the Philip Grandstaff House, dated 1787 by an inscription in a log. Early buildings were log with limestone foundations and chimneys, while later ones show Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Craftsman influences. Most buildings are vernacular, and the I-house is the dominant house form. Intact streets, lot patterns and few modern intrusions give the area a cohesive character that supported its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival); Bungalow/Craftsman; I-house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly in continued use as dwellings, shops and churches; the Edinburg Mill, a working feed mill until 1978, is now a restaurant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.936308-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/6836/41683619/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/98000845.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000845/6ab1b7ac3a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000845/6ab1b7ac3a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Strawser","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburg_VA_Historic_District_Sept_2013.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Strawser</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburg_VA_Historic_District_Sept_2013.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683619","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburg_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15216088"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/shenandoah-county/edinburg-historic-district-98000845/"}