Daniel's Hill Historic District
Daniel's Hill Historic District | |
Location | Cabell, Norwood, Hancock, Stonewall from 6th to H St., Lynchburg, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°25′21″N 79°8′45″W / 37.42250°N 79.14583°W |
Area | 49 acres (20 ha) |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 83003289[1] |
VLR No. | 118-0198 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | February 24, 1983 |
Designated VLR | December 14, 1982[2] |
The Daniel's Hill Historic District is a national
History
The district is named after two Lynchburg judges named William Daniel. The senior inherited the plantation surrounding
Other stately mansions were built north of Point of Honor on Cabell Street, which followed the ridge of long Daniels Hill, beginning in the 1850s. Three large tobacco warehouses stood at the foot of the hill, with housing for workers on side streets and below the hillcrest (where managers and professionals lived). After the Civil War, they were part of the Lynchburg Tobacco Works and a tin and sheet iron foundry which employed many in the neighborhood. Rivermont was partially subdivided by Edward S. Hutter in 1873 and worker housing lots promoted as "Danieltown" around the time a new bridge was built across Blackwater Creek for easier access to the city.
Foundry owner Albert Gallatin Dabney purchased land from Judge Daniel in 1848 and built 405 Cabell Street by 1852-53. However, it became known as "Dabney's Folly" because creditors forced him to sell the newly completed building in 1856. It was acquired by the Adams family in 1882, by which time Lynchburg's prosperity returned after the American Civil War, and they restored and expanded it. Local architect Robert C. Burkholder built his own home at 203 Cabell Street, and designed several other Victorian structures which remain in the district. Local architect Carrington Hubbard designed the mansion at 214 Cabell Street for the President of what had become the Glamorgan Factory Ironworks, McWane. Other mansions are in the Georgian, Queen Anne and Italianate styles.
Although the district had few commercial businesses, it did have small churches, including C Street Baptist on Hancock Street, First Christian Church (in a house at 305 Cabell Street in 1874) and Third Street Presbyterian Church on Cabell and G Streets (built 1875). Christ Episcopal Church was built as a mission church in 1876, and in 1900 sold and converted into a neighborhood grocery.[3]
Geography
The district stretches along the prow of a narrow, elongated hill bordered by the
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ^ NRIS p. 22 of 27
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Daniel's Hill Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map
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