Old Town Historic District

Old Town is a medium-density residential neighborhood in the heart of Harrisonburg, Virginia, just west of Interstate 81. Its streets, centered on Franklin Street and South Mason Street, hold houses built between 1850 and 1957 in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman, American Four Square and other styles. Locally quarried limestone, weatherboard and brick are the dominant materials, and a large limestone wall built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s closes the east end of Campbell Street. The district was listed because it preserves a varied collection of architecture showing how building forms changed in the early twentieth century, along with the street pattern created by additions such as Bucher and Steigel and A. M. Newman. Campbell Street recalls the Campbell Female Seminary, run from 1877 to 1892. Some streets now hold student rentals, offices and apartments.