Beach Station
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The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
Beach Station is a small railway village set back from Beach Road in south-central Chesterfield County, Virginia. Nathaniel B. Perdue and his son George built it around 1890. The eight-acre site holds two houses, a depot, a post office, an outbuilding, two railroad shanties and the brick foundation of a general store. The depot served the Brighthope Railway, a narrow gauge line that grew out of the Clover Hill coal railroad, and later the Farmville & Powhatan and Tidewater & Western companies until 1917. Beach Station is one of only two confirmed surviving stations of twenty original stations and sidings on the Tidewater & Western line in the county, and its post office is the only known nineteenth-century rural post office building left in the county. The buildings are wood-frame with weatherboard siding and metal roofs, and they keep much of their original fabric, including pressed tin interior finishes in the George Perdue House. The store site may also hold archeological evidence about the railroad and coal industries.
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| Period of significance | 1890-1917 |
|---|---|
| Styles | Other: Late 19th and early 20th century Vernacular |
| Areas of significance | Transportation, Architecture |
| Acreage | 0.8 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | Beach Station (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.