Culpeper Historic District

Culpeper's historic district covers roughly eighteen blocks of a Piedmont Virginia town that began with the county courthouse established in 1749 and became a town in 1759. The present courthouse, a brick Jeffersonian Revival building by Samuel Proctor, dates from 1874. The 1853 arrival of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad spurred warehouses and industry near the tracks, and the 1904 Southern Railway Station remains a focal point. East Davis Street holds a continuous row of late 19th- and early 20th-century brick commercial buildings with stepped parapets, corbeling and painted wall signs. Four churches, early schools and a range of houses, from late Federal and Greek Revival to Italianate, Queen Anne and Bungalow, add variety. The A.P. Hill Boyhood Home was already listed separately. The district counts 130 contributing and 23 noncontributing buildings, along with the Confederate Memorial dedicated in 1911.