Strasburg Historic DIstrict

Strasburg's historic district covers the oldest parts of a Shenandoah Valley town that the Virginia House of Burgesses established in 1761. It contains about 350 structures, of which 58 are noncontributing, arranged around King Street, the commercial spine, and Holliday Street. King Street became the main commercial road after the Valley Turnpike was rerouted onto it in 1842. No buildings from the 1761 founding survive, but two log houses may date to the late 18th century. Federal brick houses, Greek Revival details, Italianate commercial blocks with upper-story galleries, and Second Empire, Queen Anne and Gothic Revival buildings follow. Notable landmarks include Spengler Hall, a Flemish bond brick house from about 1830, Spengler's Mill, the Presbyterian Church, and the early 20th-century First National Bank. Bell Pottery is the one surviving building tied to the town's pottery industry. Together these buildings give a continuous record of the town's growth.