Blacksburg Historic District

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.