Newport Historic District (Newport, Virginia)

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Newport Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	Area surrounding Greenbriar Branch Rd. and State Route 42, Newport, Virginia
Coordinates	37°17′36″N 80°29′46″W / 37.29333°N 80.49611°W / 37.29333; -80.49611Coordinates: 37°17′36″N 80°29′46″W / 37.29333°N 80.49611°W / 37.29333; -80.49611
Area	35 acres (14 ha)
Built	1832 (1832)
Architectural style	Multiple
NRHP Reference #	94000059^[1]
VLR #	035-0151
Added to NRHP	February 25, 1994
Designated VLR	December 8, 1993^[2]

Newport Historic District is a national historic district located at Newport, Giles County, Virginia. It encompasses 50 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the rural village of Newport. The district includes primarily freestanding single-family dwellings or store buildings of one or two stories, featuring wood frame construction, wood siding or ornamental metal sheathing, front porches, and associated outbuildings. Notable buildings include the Epling-Dunkley[or Dunklee]-Smith House (1820s-1830s), Keister-Miller House (1846), Robert Payne House (1850s), Payne-Price House, the Miller Building (c. 1902), the Pent Taylor Store (c. 1902), the Miller Brothers General Mercantile Store (c. 1902), F.E. Dunkley [Dunklee] Store (c. 1902-1903), Pasterfield House (1903), Dr. Walter Miller House (1903-1904), Albert Price House (1904), Methodist Parsonage (1909), Newport Methodist Church (1850s, 1906), and Sinking Creek Valley Bank (1927).^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1] It is included in the Greater Newport Rural Historic District.

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
↑ John Kern and Leslie Giles (August 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Newport Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map

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