Old Town Manassas, or the Manassas Historic District, is a national
historic district
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located at
Manassas, Virginia
Manassas (), formerly Manassas Junction, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. The population was 42,772 at the 2020 Census. It is the county seat of Prince William County, although the two are separate jurisdi ...
. It encompasses 206 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the
central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
and surrounding residential area of city of Manassas.
Historic designation
The Manassas Historic District was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1988.
Residential areas
Residential areas include dwellings in a variety of popular late-19th and early-20th century architectural styles. These range from
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 R ...
,
Second Empire Second Empire may refer to:
* Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783
* Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)
* Second French Empire (1852–1870)
** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...
and
Queen Anne styles, to the
Craftsman and
American Foursquare
The American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass-produced elements of the Victorian architecture, Victorian and other Revival styles popul ...
styles.
Notable buildings
Notable buildings include the former Manassas Presbyterian Church (1875); the former All Saints Roman Catholic Church (1878); the Sillington, Hazen Building, formerly the National Bank of Manassas (1896); the former Hopkins Candy Factory (1908-1909); the old Manassas Town Hall; the Trinity Episcopal Church (1922); the Grace Methodist Church (1926); and the Norfolk-Southern Railway passenger station (1914). Also located in the district is the separately listed
Prince William County Courthouse. Associated with the courthouse is the contributing monument commemorating the Peace Jubilee (1911).
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References
External links
Visitmanassas.org: Historic Old Town Manassas
Manassas, Virginia
Historic districts in Northern Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Manassas, Virginia
Buildings and structures in Manassas, Virginia
Victorian architecture in Virginia
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