Roanoke City Market Historic District

Roanoke's City Market district is a six-block downtown area of more than sixty buildings, most of them brick commercial structures of one to three stories. At its center is the 1922 Georgian Revival City Market Building, which replaced Roanoke's first market building of 1886 on the same site. Its ground floor held meat dealers' stalls and its upper floor a meeting hall, while farmers have long sold produce in the surrounding streets. Around the square are buildings in Italianate, Romanesque, Beaux Arts, Georgian Revival and Art Deco styles, including the 1906 Fire Station No. 1, the 1909 Lampros Building, the 1914 McGuire Building and a 1946 Art Deco market with a carrara glass front. The district was listed because it served as the main marketplace for Roanoke and a six-county region for over a century, and because its materials and scale remain cohesive. The city has designated it a local historic district and is pursuing rehabilitation projects there.