The Bristol Commercial Historic District is a national

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Bristol, Tennessee Bristol is a city in the State of Tennessee. Located in Sullivan County, its population was 26,702 at the 2010 census. It is the twin city of Bristol, Virginia, which lies directly across the state line between Tennessee and Virginia. The ...

and

Bristol, Virginia Bristol is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,219. It is the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee, just across the state line, which runs down the middle of its main street, State S ...

. The district encompasses 83 contributing buildings in the

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of Bristol. The district straddles the Tennessee-Virginia border. The area was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries contains primarily two- and three-story masonry commercial buildings constructed from ca. 1890 to the early 1950s. Notable buildings include the Y.M.C.A (c. 1905), H.P. King Department Store (c. 1905), Reynolds Arcade (1925), Bristol Grocery Company building (c. 1915), Service Mills Company buildings (1922), E.W. King Manufacturing Company (1913), Cameo Theater (1930), Bristol, Virginia Post Office (1933), Central Building (1945), and McCrory's Department Store (1951). The First National Bank of Bristol (1905), US Post Office-Shelby Street Station (1900), and

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in 2003, and was slightly increased in size in 2017.

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National Register of Historic Places in Bristol, Virginia Beaux-Arts architecture in Virginia Bristol, Tennessee Buildings and structures in Bristol, Virginia Geography of Sullivan County, Tennessee Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{SullivanCountyTN-NRHP-stub