National Register of Historic Places
Glade Spring Commercial Historic District
Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia
The record
- Listed
- May 28, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Parts of Town Square, Grace, E. Glade & Hemlock Sts., Glade Spring
- County
- Washington
- State
- Virginia
- Contributing resources
- 22 buildings, 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 36.79225, -81.77131
- Reference number
- 13000345
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The story
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The Glade Spring Commercial Historic District is a historic district covering parts of Town Square, Grace, East Glade and Hemlock Streets in Glade Spring, Washington County. Its 22 contributing buildings and one contributing structure date mostly from c. 1866 to c. 1960 in styles including Classical Revival and Commercial style.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2013 under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in commerce, transportation and architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1866 to 1962, reflecting a trackside hotel built c. 1866.
Physical character
Its buildings are mostly two-story brick commercial blocks with walls of variegated or buff brick, terra cotta and stone fronts, standing seam metal or composite shingle roofs, and molded sheet metal cornices. One building was heavily altered in the 1940s for use as a library, gaining a shed-roofed frame addition and a metal awning around the 1940s, and a two-story concrete block building was added c. 2000.
Historical context
The Virginia & Tennessee Railroad first ran track through this part of the valley in 1856 and spurred development of the district and the town; a trackside hotel went up in 1866, and the triangular town square took shape in the 1870s. Commercial buildings followed, including the Bank of Glade Spring in 1915 and the Farmer's Exchange in 1918, and the local senior center owned the property from 1976.