South Franklin Street Historic District

South Franklin Street in Christiansburg is a tree-shaded residential street one block south of the courthouse square. The district covers about eleven acres and includes 26 contributing and three noncontributing buildings. The oldest are the mid-nineteenth-century Miller House, a Greek Revival frame dwelling later given Colonial Revival touches, and the Italianate Wade House. Later houses include vernacular frame homes, Bungalows in brick and frame, Colonial Revival houses, and two 1930s Tudor Revival dwellings. The most unusual building is The Huts, built in 1919 by Ethel Rice, who had lived in Rhodesia. It consists of round, cone-roofed brick rooms and is described as unique in the region. The Miller House was home to Charles Edie Miller, whose cousin, folk artist Lewis Miller, visited and drew the town. The district was recognized for architecture, as a well preserved neighborhood showing regional styles from the 1850s to 1940. Most houses remain single-family homes.