Woodstock Historic District

Woodstock's historic district covers the old center of the oldest town in Shenandoah County, laid out in 1761 in the northern Shenandoah Valley and the county seat since 1772. Its grid of streets centers on Main Street, once the Valley Turnpike, and holds 283 contributing buildings dating from the late 1700s to the 1940s. The 1795 courthouse, built of native limestone with a hexagonal wooden cupola, is considered the oldest surviving courthouse west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nearby is Lawyers Row, a rare surviving group of early nineteenth-century law offices. Log houses later covered in weatherboards, Federal and Greek Revival dwellings, Victorian houses with sawnwork porches, and Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes line Main, Church and Muhlenberg Streets. Churches in several denominations and styles, early twentieth-century commercial blocks, railroad-side industrial buildings and the Collegiate Gothic buildings of Massanutten Military Academy add variety. The district is notable for its well-preserved fabric and the range of building types and styles.