Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Occupying the lower part of the central business district and the High Street and Grove Avenue residential areas in the city of Petersburg, the large Petersburg Old Town Historic District incorporates approximately 250 buildings on 190 acres. One of Virginia’s oldest cities, Petersburg began as a fur trading post in the mid-17th century. The district possesses a diversity of residential, commercial, and industrial architecture, mostly of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2025, the National Park Service approved additional documentation updating the original district’s inventory of historic resources. The new documentation also expands upon the original nomination’s discussion of the Petersburg Old Town Historic District’s local significance in the areas of Community Planning & Development and Commerce. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eVU7KCA3 #PetersburgVA #historicplaces #history #Virginia #Virginiahistory #historicpreservation #historicpreservationmatters #historicdistrict

🎊 Happy New Year! 🎊 2025 brings us one year closer to our nation's Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of American independence. On January 11 at 2 PM, there will be a commemorative event at Charles City County's Historic Courthouse. This event will highlight the significance of Charles City County in the American Revolution as part of the VA250 Commission Celebration. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e7-mTjHn . . . . #America250 #Virginia250 #History #Virginiahistory #Americanhistory #AmericanRevolution #learningisfun #education #Virginia

Big news on what's to come in 2025! Read more on VPM: https://lnkd.in/ecWg8eyZ #virginiahistory #Virginia #history #civilrights #CivilRightsLeader

Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the designation of 19 new National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) and the approval of updated documentation for 14 previously listed NHLs. Virginia had the most designations out of all the states, with three new NHLs—Azurest (#FUNFACTS - pronounced "As You Rest") South in Petersburg, the Blue Ridge Parkway (also in NC), and Loudoun County Courthouse in Leesburg—as well as updated documentation for two previously listed landmarks. Learn more via National Park Service: https://lnkd.in/eVSYS8Vq #landmarks #Virginia #Virginialandmarks #history #Virginiahistory #architecture #architecturelovers #archaeology #historicpreservation #historicpresrevationmatters #NPS

🔔🔔🔔 Six historic sites in the Commonwealth have just been designated as Virginia Landmarks! They include a house in Charlottesville designed by Milton L. Grigg, the celebrated architect best known for his work on the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg and Monticello in the 20th century; a Danville elementary school featuring architecture representative of mid-20th–century educational trends and their effect on the development of suburbs in Virginia after World War II; and a unique, mid-1700s American frontier–style home in the Shenandoah Valley that grew into a commercial business in the 19th and 20th centuries. Read more: https://lnkd.in/emY3cwVU . All photographs courtesy of DHR. . . . #VADHR #Virginialandmarks #history #historicpreservation #historicpreservationmatters #Virginia #historicplaces #Virginiahistory #StateGovernment #architecture #architecturelovers #VAIsforhistorylovers

📢TUNE IN! The Virginia Board of Historic Resources and the State Review Board meet today at 10:00 AM to consider new nominations of historic sites for designation in the Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) and the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Sign up here to listen to their decisions: https://lnkd.in/eDaCUHN4 For more information, visit here: https://lnkd.in/eFtq7H5

It's a festive day at DHR when there are cookies involved! Our dear friend, the architectural historian Deb McClane, brings us her delicious hand-crafted Christmas cookies every year during the holidays. This year's theme was Italian Vacation, and every bite felt like a vacation! YUM! Thank you, Deb! 🙌🍪🎄❄️

Built in 1904, this relic of a bygone era is the town of Monterey’s signature landmark. From the mid-19th-century through the early-20th-century western Virginia was dotted with numerous resort hotels offering a salubrious climate for visitors seeking to escape the summer heat and unwholesome airs of the seaboard cities. A more hurried life style, easier long distance travel, and air conditioning resulted in the demise of nearly all of these hostelries, making Highland County’s Monterey Hotel a rare survival. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e3GSj-Ek . Photo by Calder Loth/DHR . . . . #VADHDR #historicpreservation #historicpreservationmatters #history #Virginia #Virginiahistory #historichotel #travel #HighlandCountyVA

According to DHR's cemetery archaeologist Joanna Green, finding historic cemeteries on land set for commercial development is not uncommon. Residents who have a stake in a cemetery that's located on developable land can either choose to relocate the graves or request for developers to work around the cemetery. In Pittsylvania County, residents are going with both options—read the rest of the story on Cardinal News: https://lnkd.in/dP5tqmXr . Photo by Grace Mamon/Courtesy of Cardinal News. . . . . #cemeterypreservation #historicplaces #archaeology #history #historicpreservation #historicpreservationmatters #Virginia #Virginiahistory #cemeteries

Hundley Hall and Hoskins Country Store sit on a shared property in the Essex County crossroads village of Dunnsville. The well-preserved Federal and Greek Revival house was built ca. 1840 for Dr. William Lowry Waring, Jr, but was remodeled with subtle Greek Revival updates by the next owner, John S. Trible. After the Civil War, the Hundley family transformed what had been a five-acre manor house estate on the edge of Dunnsville into a working farm of 124 acres with several outbuildings, including one possible quarter building that remains standing. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eVaWjaax . . . . #VADHR #historicplaces #historicpreservation #historicpreservationmatters #history #Virginiahistory #Virginia #historichomes #historichouse