Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute is a historic

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

trade school complex located at Christiansburg,

Montgomery County, Virginia Montgomery County is a county located in the Valley and Ridge area of the U.S. state of Virginia. As population in the area increased, Montgomery County was formed in 1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt Coun ...

. The complex includes the Hill School (1885), the Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church (1885), and the Primary Annex (1888). The Hill School is a -story, cruciform-plan, gable-roof structure set on a low stone foundation. Although the building is stylistically in the

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

mode, the windows suggest a Queen Anne Revival inspiration. The Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church is a

Victorian Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

brick church building with a gable-roof and projecting southeast corner tower. Connected to the church by a covered passageway is a wood-frame, tent-roof octagon, known as the Primary Annex. an
''Accompanying photo''
/ref> A later building associated with the Christiansburg Industrial Institute is the separately listed Edgar A. Long Building built in 1927. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 2001.

References

African-American history of Virginia School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Carpenter Gothic architecture in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Queen Anne architecture in Virginia School buildings completed in 1885 Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Virginia {{MontgomeryCountyVA-NRHP-stub