Pulaski Historic Residential District

Pulaski's historic residential district covers most of the neighborhood north of the town's commercial core, beside Peak Creek in Pulaski County, Virginia. It holds 363 buildings, including 321 single-family houses, eight churches, a former high school, a hospital and the municipal waterworks. Most contributing buildings are frame or brick houses from the 1880s to the 1940s. The streets follow plats drawn for the Pulaski Land and Improvement Company in the 1880s, with numbered streets, named avenues, tree-planted boulevards and a small square at Washington Avenue and Sixth Street. Prospect Avenue, with its curving form, holds the grandest homes of factory managers, such as the Queen Anne-style Taylor House, while Henry Avenue has workers' housing. Queen Anne houses gave way to Colonial Revival ones after 1900, and many vernacular center-passage and T-plan houses survive. The planning is described as rare in Virginia and among Appalachian industrial towns.