Waynesboro, house by house

Every building in two of the city’s historic districts, 522 in all, with what the National Register record says about each one: who built it, who lived there, and what has changed.

Then

Colored by building material, as on Sanborn fire-insurance maps:

  • Frame (295)
  • Brick (202)
  • Stone (5)
  • Concrete or block (13)
  • Not recorded (7)
  • Dashed: not a contributing building

Pictures and maps

Every Sanborn fire insurance atlas of Waynesboro, 1886 to 1925, and photographs shared by people who know these houses.

Tree Streets Historic District

367 properties. Listed on the National Register in 2002.

The Tree Streets Historic District is the principal historic residential neighborhood in the City of Waynesboro, Virginia. The neighborhood takes its name from the streets that comprise it--Maple, Walnut, Chestnut, and so forth--and was primarily developed by the Waynesboro Company, chartered in December 1889. The Waynesboro Company was one of the more successful land companies to appear on the Waynesboro scene during the Virginia development boom of the 1880s and early 1890s.

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Port Republic Road Historic District

98 properties. Listed on the National Register in 2002.

The Port Republic Road Historic District is Waynesboro, Virginia's principal historic African American neighborhood. The community formed after the Civil War within the framework of an early nineteenth-century subdivision established near the industrial complex of mill owner Frederick Imboden. This earlier association explains the presence of the district's oldest resource: the house of blacksmith John Crouse, built in part by 1818.

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Waynesboro Downtown Historic District

57 properties. Listed on the National Register in 2002.

The Waynesboro Downtown Historic District embraces the historic core of the City of Waynesboro, Virginia. Platted in 1798, the downtown developed into a place of business and residence over the course of the nineteenth century. The district's earliest surviving building stock is domestic in form and scale, and includes stylish brick dwellings such as the circa 1806 and later Casper Coiner House, the oldest building in the district and the only resource individually listed in the National Register.

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The oldest building on record here is Old Stone House at 805 Oak Ave, dated Ca. 1800; 1930s; ca. 1990.