Warrenton 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 at Warrenton,

Warren County, North Carolina Warren County is a county located in the northeastern Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, on the northern border with Virginia, made famous for a landfill and birthplace of the environmental justice movement. As of the 2020 cen ...

. The district encompasses 202 contributing buildings 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 sections of Warrenton. The district developed between about 1840 and 1926, and includes notable examples of Early Republic,

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 ...

, and

Late Victorian Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian we ...

architecture. Notable buildings include the Falkener House, Macon Street House, Peter Davis Store, Jones-Cook House (c. 1810), Eaton Place (1843), Sommerville-Graham House (c. 1850) by

Jacob W. Holt Jacob W. Holt (March 30, 1811 September 21, 1880) was an American carpenter and builder-architect in Warrenton, North Carolina. Some twenty or more buildings are known to have been built by him or are attributed to him and his workshop by local ...

, Presbyterian Church also by Holt, Baptist Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Miles Hardware Store, Warrenton City Hall, Warrenton Hotel, John Graham School, and the U.S. Post Office. 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 v ...

in 1976.

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External links

Warrenton Historic District Commission
* * * * Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival architecture in North Carolina Victorian architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Warren County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, North Carolina {{WarrenCountyNC-NRHP-stub