Timberville Historic District

Timberville's historic district covers about 125 acres of the town in northern Rockingham County, Virginia, straddling the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and crossed by State Route 42. Most of its buildings are single-family houses, many of log or wood-frame vernacular construction, with the oldest dating to the late 18th century. Other buildings include a 1832 Federal-style brick house, a ca. 1819 brick bank barn, a Romanesque Revival church built in 1929, Italian Renaissance commercial buildings, a 1912 post office, a Streamlined Moderne service station, and an 1871 frame schoolhouse. Timberville Cemetery, established in 1819, overlooks the town. The district is significant for architecture, transportation and commerce. The railroad, which reached Timberville in 1868, drove much of its late 19th and early 20th century growth, and the automobile later encouraged development south of the river. Its period of significance runs from about 1790 to 1962. Some buildings have modern siding and windows, but their forms remain intact.