Round Hill Historic District

Round Hill Historic District covers roughly 96 acres in the center of the town of Round Hill, at the foothills of the Blue Ridge in western Loudoun County. The district holds a varied collection of Victorian and early 20th-century houses, commercial buildings, five churches, and rail-related structures such as the 1902 depot, a freight station and a railroad power station. A small crossroads community existed at the junction of the Leesburg-Snicker's Gap Turnpike and the road to Woodgrove, but the town grew rapidly after the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad arrived in 1874. Many large houses served as boardinghouses for summer visitors from Washington. Local builders Barney T. Noland and Arch Simpson produced Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival and vernacular buildings. Round Hill was incorporated in 1900, and growth slowed after the 1920s and again when rail service ended in 1939. Because Route 7 later bypassed the town, much of its historic architecture and street pattern survives. The earliest surviving house dates to about 1775.