National Register of Historic Places
Christiansburg Downtown Historic District
Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia
The record
- Listed
- May 28, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- E. & W. Main, N. & S. Franklin Sts., Christiansburg
- County
- Montgomery
- State
- Virginia
- Contributing resources
- 32 buildings, 1 site, 2 objects
- Coordinates
- 37.12967, -80.41031
- Reference number
- 13000340
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The story
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The Christiansburg Downtown Historic District is a historic district along East and West Main and North and South Franklin Streets in Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, listed in the National Register in 2013. Its buildings range from Greek Revival and Queen Anne to Colonial Revival, Commercial Style, Art Deco and Art Moderne.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture, community planning and development, and commerce. Its period of significance runs from 1853 to 1963, spanning a building dated 1853 to a church sanctuary added in 1963.
Physical character
Walls are common bond, yellow and white brick, brick veneer and limestone, on foundations of brick veneer, stucco and stone, under standing seam metal or asphalt shingle roofs. Individual buildings carry a bowed eastern facade bay under a broad front gable, a polygonal tower with a flared, pointed metal roof, a crenelated corner entry tower with buttresses, and a dropped denticulated cornice under a full-width aluminum canopy. A porch was added in 1881, and a third floor went up in 1920.
Historical context
The town was surveyed in 1790 and established as Christiansburg in 1792. Commerce grew along Main Street as the Bank of Christiansburg was chartered in 1888, and Morris C. Miller built a Ford dealership there in 1911 for Sidney Sheltman that operated until 1945.