Remington Historic District

Remington is a small railroad town in southwestern Fauquier County, Virginia, about a half mile from the Rappahannock River. Its historic district covers roughly 49 acres of the original street grid and holds 134 contributing resources, including houses, churches, commercial buildings and outbuildings. The town grew around the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which came through in 1852, but war damage and later fires left only one resource from the earliest years. Most of what survives was built after the town was incorporated in 1890. Buildings range from vernacular I-houses and T-shaped dwellings to ornate Queen Anne and Gothic Revival homes, along with Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival churches. Commercial buildings line East Main Street close to the sidewalk. The district was recognized for its role as a commercial and transportation center serving the surrounding farmland and for an unusually sophisticated collection of architecture for a rural Piedmont town of its size.