North Danville Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in Danville,

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. The district includes 426 contributing buildings in a primarily residential area of Danville. The district includes three blocks of primarily two-story, brick commercial buildings. Buildings within the district were constructed from around 1880 until roughly 1955 and reflect a wide variety of architectural styles, including vernacular

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, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and

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designs. Many of these buildings were built by

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Cotton Mills founder T.B. Fitzgerald. Notable buildings include the Calvary United Methodist Church (1886), Shelton Memorial Presbyterian Church (1889), Bellevue Public School (1898), Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1910), Keen Street Baptist Church (1927), and Woodrow Wilson High School (1926). an
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in 2004. File:North Danville 1947 Movie Theater.jpg, North Danville 1947 movie theater in an 1880s building that had a grocery store on the first floor and a Masonic lodge on the third floor. File:Danville North 1895 Frame Home.jpg, North Danville two-story 1895

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built with other identical homes. It has a two-story full-width porch and dual entrances. File:Danville North Queen Anne Home.jpg, North Danville Queen Anne style home built in a gabled ell form during the late 1800s. It has original weatherboard siding. The veranda has spindle balusters and the window hoods have brackets. File:Danville North Italianate Home.jpg, North Danville Italianate style home. This two-story brick dwelling has an original veranda, a two-story bay, arched windows with keystones, and rectangular wood panels at the cornice.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Buildings and structures in Danville, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Danville, Virginia {{DanvilleVA-NRHP-stub