Roanoke Warehouse Historic District

Roanoke Warehouse Historic District
Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, June 2010
Location109-133 Norfolk Ave., SW, Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates37°16′23″N 79°56′37″W / 37.27306°N 79.94361°W / 37.27306; -79.94361
Area2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
Built1889 (1889)-1902
NRHP reference No.83003313[1]
VLR No.128-0046
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 29, 1983
Designated VLRSeptember 16, 1982[2]

Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, also known as 'Wholesale Row," is a national historic district located at Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses five contributing buildings constructed between 1889 and 1902. All the buildings are constructed of brick, two-to-four stories in height and three-to-eleven bays in length. Two of the buildings have exceptional corbeled stepped gables in a Dutch-vernacular tradition. The buildings were erected for wholesale food storage.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (September 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Roanoke Warehouse Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine