Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District

North of Thomas Jefferson's original academical village at the University of Virginia, this eighty-four-acre Charlottesville neighborhood grew alongside the university between the 1890s and the Great Depression. It centers on University Avenue and Rugby Road and falls into four segments: a commercial strip known as the Corner, the campus and Carr's Hill area, the University Circle residential enclave, and a grid of houses, apartments and fraternity houses. Of 221 major structures, 48 are noncontributing. About three-quarters of the buildings show revival styles, especially Colonial and Georgian Revival. Notable examples include Anderson's Bookstore with its three-story sheetmetal facade, St. Anthony's Hall of 1902, the first purpose-built fraternity house in the city, Fayerweather Hall, the president's residence designed by McKim, Mead and White, and Lambeth Field's concrete stadium with a Doric colonnade. Wyndhurst, probably from the late 1850s, is the oldest surviving dwelling. Tree-lined streets and open spaces add to the district's character.