Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest

by Anne Carter Lee, Contributors (Editor), Pauline Saliga (Editor)

Overview

Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and rocky, almost untillable land. The green forests, rich loam, red clay, and sandy soil attracted waves of immigrants, newcomers almost as varied as the landscape. They came first to explore and trade and then to work, often to overwork, the land. The result in architecture is one of conservatism and rebellion, a region supremely proud of its history and, all too often, neglectful of its preservation.This second of two volumes devoted to the Old Dominion encompasses five regions (Shenandoah Valley, Allegheny Highlands, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest Virginia), comprising 55 counties and 20 of the state's independent cities. More than 1,250 building entries document the commonwealth's history from prehistory to early settlement, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Massive Resistance, and the civil rights movement, to the present day, surveying a range of building types and styles from log cabins to tobacco plantation houses, including the birthplaces of Booker T. Washington and Confederate general Jubal Early, set in close proximity in Franklin County, and the homes of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee in Lexington. The text, enhanced and enlivened by 300 photographs and 31 maps, canvasses everything from Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest and Woodrow Wilson's Presidential Library to Roanoke's modernist Taubman Museum of Art and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley to Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, highlighting along the way Virginia's contributions to literature (Willa Cather to the Waltons), music (the Carter Family and Ralph Stanley), cuisine (apple orchards, turkey farms, and whiskey distilleries), and tourism (Luray Caverns to Natural Bridge).

A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813935652
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	02/11/2015
Series:	Buildings of the United States
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 5.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Anne Carter Lee, an architectural historian and preservation activist, assembled a team for this volume that includes contributors from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the National Trust, the Historic American Buildings Survey, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Art Department of Washington and Lee University.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book ix

Foreword xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

Native Americans 1

European Settlement to c. 1750 3

The French and Indian War and Its Aftermath 7

Settlement and Building to 1800 9

Tobacco, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Transportation 11

Architecture to 1860 14

The Civil War and Its Aftermath 19

Railroads and Boom-towns 22

Turn of the Twentieth Century 23

The Twentieth Century to World War II 24

Since World War II 27

Historic Preservation 29

Shenandoah Valley 33

Frederick County (with City of Winchester) 35

Clarke County 52

Warren County 60

Shenandoah County 67

Page County 78

Rockingham County (with City of Harrisonburg) 86

Augusta County (with Cities of Staunton and Waynesboro) 100

Rockbridge County (with Cities of Lexington and Buena Vista) 120

Botetourt County 138

Allegheny Highlands 145

Highland County 147

Bath County 151

Alleghany County (with City of Covington) 157

Craig County 168

Piedmont 175

Nelson County 176

Amherst County 183

Bedford County (with Cities of Bedford and Lynchburg) 191

Franklin County 219

Henry County (with City of Martinsville) 226

Patrick County 236

Southside 243

Campbell County 246

Appomattox County 253

Buckingham County 257

Prince Edward County 264

Cumberland County 274

Powhatan County 278

Chesterfield County (with City of Colonial Heights) 285

Amelia County 290

Nottoway County 295

Dinwiddie County (with City of Petersburg) 301

Sussex County 318

Greensville County (with City of Emporia) 321

Brunswick County 326

Lunenburg County 332

Mecklenburg County 336

Charlotte County 343

Halifax County 350

Pittsylvania County (with City of Danville) 359

Southwest Virginia 381

Floyd County 384

Carroll County (with City of Galax) 387

Grayson County 397

Roanoke County (with Cities of Salem and Roanoke) 401

Montgomery County (with City of Radford) 428

Pulaski County 443

Wythe County 449

Smyth County 457

Washington County (with City of Bristol) 465

Giles County 477

Bland County 482

Tazewell County 485

Russell County 492

Scott County 495

Buchanan County 499

Dickenson County 501

Wise County (with City of Norton) 504

Lee County 511

Glossary 517

Bibliography 529

Illustration Credits 535

Index 537