West End Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Along the east side of Wellons Street in Suffolk, Virginia, a short row of houses extends the West End neighborhood eastward. The group holds eight contributing buildings and four noncontributing resources, mostly garages, sheds and one 1975 house. Most dwellings date from about 1890 to 1925 and are modest local vernacular types, identified more by roof shape and massing than by formal style. Examples include Foursquare-inspired cube-shaped houses, side-gable houses with restrained Colonial Revival details, and a Folk Victorian cottage with sawn trim. The largest is the Queen Anne style J. C. Causey, Jr. House on West Washington Street, later used as a funeral home. The street was platted by 1898 as part of Suffolk's first true suburb, which grew as railroads and the peanut industry expanded the city's middle class. The area was added because it continues the streetscape, street pattern and building types of the original district, and it retains integrity despite some replacement siding.