Winchester Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This 8.25-acre addition to Winchester's historic district lies along North Cameron Street and the adjacent railroad tracks. It holds fifteen contributing buildings that show how the city worked as a commercial and industrial hub from the 1870s to about 1950. Italianate commercial buildings with bracketed wooden cornices sit beside the Snapp Foundry, the Glaize & Brothers lumberyard with its office and formed-concrete planing mill, and warehouses of the Baker & Company wholesale grocery. A circa 1890 limestone warehouse is described as the only surviving stone warehouse in the city. A well-preserved Baltimore & Ohio freight depot from about 1880 is the last railroad building of its period nearby. Mid-century brick and concrete-block buildings show the area's continued mercantile use. Three buildings, including two modern storage buildings and a heavily altered former feed mill, do not contribute. Together the resources document the link between rail access, manufacturing and trade in the city's growth.