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Historic district in Virginia, United States

United States historic place
Foster Falls Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Foster Falls Furnace, April 2012
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LocationNew River Trail State Park, 176 Orphanage Dr., near Max Meadows, Virginia
Coordinates36°53′1″N 80°51′20″W / 36.88361°N 80.85556°W / 36.88361; -80.85556
Area16.5 acres (6.7 ha)
Built1881 (1881)
ArchitectGraham and Robinson
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.09000925
VLR No.098-5141
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 2009
Designated VLRSeptember 17, 2005

Foster Falls Historic District is a national historic district located near Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the village of Foster Falls. They are primarily industrial and commercial buildings and structures built in the late-19th century. They include the iron furnace stack, the rail bed and frame railroad passenger station (c. 1887), a general store building, and a combination gristmill/sawmill. The district includes the Foster Falls Hotel, a late-Victorian style brick building. The hotel property includes two brick dependencies associated with an orphanage that occupied the hotel building beginning in 1938. It now serves as the headquarters of the New River Trail State Park.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

References

  1. ^ "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 June 5, 2013.
  3. "Foster Falls Historic District on Wikimapia".
  4. Michael J. Pulice (May 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Foster Falls Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos and Accompanying map
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