West End Historic District

West End is a residential neighborhood in Suffolk, Virginia, laid out on a grid of streets west of the city's downtown historic district and bounded by railroad lines to the north and south. Linden Avenue is its widest street and the only one with a landscaped median. Most buildings date from the 1890s to the 1930s and show the fashionable styles of those decades, often in modest vernacular form: Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, bungalows and American foursquares. The oldest surviving dwelling, a Greek Revival house at 504 West Washington Street, dates from about 1860. Churches include the Gothic Revival Oxford United Methodist Church of 1922 and a Colonial Revival Baptist church of 1938. Early commercial activity clustered near the Norfolk & Western Railroad and included a mattress company, a casket company and a hardware and lumber store. By 1939 the neighborhood was nearly complete, and later infill has been limited. The district contains 286 contributing resources.