The J. W. Wood Building is a historic commercial building located at

Lynchburg, Virginia Lynchburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch (1740–1820), John Lynch, the city's populati ...

. The commercial building in a modified

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

-style. It was built between 1851 and 1853 as a warehouse. It is the largest and best preserved of the few pre-

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commercial structures remaining in Lynchburg. an
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in 1983.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Commercial buildings completed in 1853 Greek Revival architecture in Virginia Buildings and structures in Lynchburg, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Lynchburg, Virginia {{LynchburgVA-NRHP-stub