Sites with Historic Buildings interest:

• National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Joseph's College
  Shrine to Mother Seton
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  This school was established in 1809 as a religious sisterhood and a free school for area children.  This school became the nucleus of the catholic parochial school system in the United States.
   
• A.P. Hill Boyhood Home
  The home of Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  The home of Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill who lived in the original portion of this house from age seven until 1842.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Adams County Courthouse
  An historic structure in Gettysburg, PA
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  The courthouse is over 125 years old and reflects the rich heritage of the town and battlefield.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Aldie Mill Historic District
  1804 home of Charles Fenton Mercer
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Charles Fenton Mercer, military officer, legislator, and advocate for the colonization of African Americans, settled here in 1804. He named his property for Aldie Castle, his Scottish ancestral home.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Arcadia
  An historic mansion
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  This 45-room mansion overlooks the Monocacy Battlefield
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Ash Lawn-Highland
  Home of President James Monroe
  Open to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  James Monroe's 550 acre estate recreates the atmosphere of a working farm, with strutting peacocks, spinning and weaving demonstrations, open hearth cooking demonstrations and tours of the house and gardens.
  Interests: Presidential, Revolutionary War
   
• Ballard-Marshall House
  1800s home of Garland Ballard and later Fielding Lewis Marshall
  Closed to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The 1832 house was built for Garland Ballard, a local merchant. Its trim and systematic proportions distinguish this classic example of the Classical Revival tradition in the Virginia Piedmont.
  
   
• Barboursville
  Historic Ruins and Barboursville Vineyards
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  Preserved as a ruin after its destruction by fire on Christmas Day, 1884, Barboursville was one of the largest and finest residences in the region. Today it is home to Barboursville Vineyards.
  Interests: Presidential
   
• Beatty-Cramer House
  The 1732 house is the earliest known standing structure in Frederick County
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The 1732 house is the earliest known standing structure in Frederick County, with architectural features not found in any other property in Maryland
   
• Beverley's Mill (also known as Chapman Mill)
  Historic gristmill and battlefield
  Open to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  The mill was believed to be the tallest grist mill in the United States and was built of stone in 1742.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Bloomsbury
  18th century Georgian farmstead
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The property is significant for its association with the history of the 18th century iron industry as well as for its association with Roger Johnson, the youngest brother of Maryland's first Governor, Thomas Johnson
   
• Boswell’s Tavern
  A celebrated Colonial tavern
  Closed to the public. Located in Louisa County, VA
  A landmark for travelers since Nicholas Johnson built its earliest section c.1735, this weatherboarded structure on the edge of the Green Springs Historic District is one of the state's time-honored rural taverns.
  Interests: Revolutionary War
   
• Brentmoor
  An historic home owned by John Mosby
  Closed to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  This classic Italian Villa-style dwelling was built in 1859-61 and is described as "a simple, rational, convenient, and economic dwelling for the southern part of the Union." The house was purchased by John Singleton Mosby, the Confederate ranger, in 1875.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Prince William County, VA
  The Centre will be used in the future to help interpret Prince William County history as a farming community during the 19th century. The courthouse has been restored to its original grandeur.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Brunswick Historic District
  A railroad town of the 1890-1930 period
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Brunswick today is a railroad town of basically the 1890-1930 period construction, with very few visual remnants of its earlier and quieter identity.
   
• Buckeystown Historic District
  A late 19th-century community
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The town embodies the distinctive characteristics of a late-19th century community highlighted by many of Frederick County's finest examples of Carpenter Gothic and Colonial Revival styles
   
• Buckingham House and Industrial School Complex
  Vocational school from the 1870s to 1944
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The Buckingham House and Industrial School operated as the only vocational school for boys in Frederick County from the 1870s to 1944. Here, students were trained to apprentice in a trade or continue their education in a business school.
   
• Buckland Historic District
  Historic town Established in 1798
  Open to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  Established in 1798 as the first inland town in the county, it is significant historically and architecturally as a representative of the small, mill-oriented communities that characterized much of the region from this date to the mid-nineteenth century. The 19-acre Buckland Historic District is located on both sides of Route 29 near the Fauquier County border.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Burgandine House
  This log house was standing in 1749
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This log house is covered outside by clapboard. It was standing in 1749 when Culpeper County came into being by separation from Orange County.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Burkittsville Historic District
  18th and 19th century American townscape
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The town is a well preserved, virtually unchanged example of the American townscape of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its churches, houses, and shops are bordered at the rear by the fields surrounding the town.
   
• Castle Hill
  An example of Jeffersonian classicism
  Closed to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  An example of Jeffersonian classicism by master builder John M. Perry. It was erected in 1823-24.
   
• Clifton
  The home of Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (1768-1828)
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  This was the home of Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (1768-1828), son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson.
   
• Culpeper Historic District
  Significant for its architectural cohesiveness
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This county-seat town is significant for its architectural cohesiveness and associations with commercial, military, political, and transportation history.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• David Wills House
  Site of the final edits of the Gettysburg Address
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  President Lincoln stayed here on the eve of his Gettysburg Address and this is where he did the final edits to one of his greatest speeches.
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• Dobbin House
  Civil War hospital and possible underground railroad stop
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  Built by a Scots-Irish immigrant and Presbyterian minister around 1776, the house purportedly sheltered freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. It served as a hospital during the Civil War.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Douglass High School
  Loudoun's first black high school
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Named for Frederick Douglass, a former slave and prominent abolitionist, the school operated as the county's first and only black high school from its opening in 1941 until the termination of segregated education in 1968.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Edgehill
  The home of Thomas Jefferson Randolph
  Closed to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  Edgehill was the home of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, favorite grandson of Thomas Jefferson. The stately brick house was built for Randolph in 1828.
   
• Edgewood
  Stone farmhouse
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The multi-part stone farmhouse shows evidence of both 18th and 19th century construction, and an excellent example of northern Maryland's vernacular architecture and the evolution it experienced over the course of two centuries
   
• Eisenhower National Historic Site
  President Eisenhower's weekend retreat near Gettysburg
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  The farm is the only place President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower ever called home. Today you can tour the home, grounds, barns, and cattle operation, preserved as they were in the Eisenhower days.
  Interests: Presidential
   
• Emmitsburg Historic District
  A largely intact antebellum neighborhood
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The District is significant because it reflects the growth and development of this northern Frederick County market center in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries.
   
• Exchange Hotel
  Played an important role in transportation history
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  This Gordonsville landmark is a forerunner of the large railroad hotels that played an important role in the transportation history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Frederick Armory
  Armory built in 1900
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Built in 1900, the armory is significant for its association with the reorganization and expansion of the National Guard system in the 20th century
   
• Frederick Historic District
  18th and 19th century architecture and historic sites
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The district offers 18th and 19th century architecture (including its famous clustered spires), historic sites, specialty shops, restaurants, and cultural arts offerings.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
  The Bloodiest Landscape in North America
  Open to the public. Located in Spotsylvania County, VA
  Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania - more than 85,000 men wounded; 15,000 killed. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War’s tragic cost, in all its forms. These places reveal the trials of a community and nation at war.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Gambrill House
  Mansion of the Second Empire Victorian style
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  A three-story brick mansion with mansard roof and central tower, detailing the richly ornamented but conservative interpretation of the Second Empire Victorian style.
   
• General George C. Marshall Home
  Also known as Dodona Manor
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Also known as Dodona Manor, this beautiful home was owned by General George C. Marshall, author of the Marshall Plan which laid the groundwork for Post World War II European recovery.
   
• Gettysburg College
  A Civil War field hospital and command post.
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  During the Civil War, the college provided shelter for the wounded and dying as a field hospital and as a command post. President Eisenhower had his post-presidential office on the campus.
  Interests: Civil War, Presidential
   
• Goose Creek Rural Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Goose Creek is the only rural Historic and Cultural Conservation District. Encompassing over 10,000 acres of land, this district was formed to protect and enhance the rural landscape of the area.
   
• Gordonsville Historic District
  19th- and early 20th-century buildings
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The assemblage of 19th- and early 20th-century residential, commercial, and church buildings forming this Piedmont community reflects the vicissitudes of a Virginia railroad town.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Grace Church
  Gothic Revival church by William Strickland
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  This fine specimen of the early, more picturesque interpretation of the Gothic Revival is the only known Virginia work of William Strickland.
   
• Graceham Moravian Church and Parsonage
  18th century settlement
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  These buildings are fine examples of American Moravian architecture and represent Maryland's only remaining Moravian 18th century settlement.
   
• Green Springs Historic District
  18th and 19th century farmsteads adjoining Rt 15
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Louisa County, VA
  The Green Springs Historic District is six and one-half miles long, four and one-half miles wide, bounded by Route 15 and Route 22 in the western end of Louisa County. Its farms, buildings, and families represent many generations of agricultural, architectural, and social history.
  Interests: Presidential
   
• Greenway
  Home of Francis Madison, brother of James Madison
  Closed to the public. Located in Madison County, VA
  Built circa 1780 for Francis Madison, a younger brother of President James Madison, Greenway is a traditional vernacular building type commonly used in the Virginia Piedmont from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century.
   
• Greenwich Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
  Gothic Church built in 1858
  Closed to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  Built in 1858, this picturesque country Gothic church is distinguished by its rustic Gothic porches and lych (roofed) gate. It was the only church in the county not damaged by Union forces.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Greenwood
  19th century plantation house
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This house illustrates a small yet commodious plantation house that rich, influential 19th Century men of the western Piedmont were contented with.
   
• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
  Open to the public. Located in Jefferson County, WV
  A visit to this quaint, historic community, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, is like stepping into the past. Stroll the picturesque streets, visit exhibits and museums, or hike our trails and battlefields. There's a wide variety of experiences for visitors of all ages, so come and discover Harpers Ferry.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Hawkwood
  An 1855 Italian Villa-style house
  Closed to the public. Located in Louisa County, VA
  The 1855 house is the best-remaining example of the Italian Villa-style houses designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis.
   
• Hessian Barracks
  A Revolutionary war prison and Civil War hospital
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  A two-story stone structure built during the French and Indian War which has been used as a Revolutionary War prison, staging point for Lewis and Clarke expedition, State Armory in 1812, and a Civil War general hospital.
  Interests: Civil War, Revolutionary War
   
• Highland Lodge
  Summer home of John H. Williams
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  This summer "cottage" is significant for its association with the development of the highlands west of Frederick city as the location of resort properties for the city's emerging professional and merchant class during the late 19th and early 20th century.
   
• Hill Mansion
  1850's Italianate style mansion
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  Hill Mansion is a sophisticated example of the Italianate style, one of the several picturesque modes popular in the 1850s.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Hood College Historic District
  1893 woman's college
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Established as the Woman's College in 1893, the area making up the District presently consists of 30 educational buildings, an observatory, a central quadrangle, a church, an entry gate, and four additional structures, located on approximately 50 landscaped acres.
   
• Ida Lee Park (Greenwood Farm)
  Pre-Civil War farmhouse
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Originally known as the Greenwood Farm, Ida Lee is now a recreational park.  The original farmhouse, now the centerpiece of the recreational facility, was built prior to the Civil War.
   
• Jefferson County Courthouse
  Open to the public. Located in Jefferson County, WV
  Visit the famous courthouse where John Brown was tried for treason in 1859. Rebuilt in 1836, the courthouse remains a working courthouse, not a museum. It stands as the vital center of government in this busy county.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Leesburg Historic District
  Offering a view of three centuries of history
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Leesburg offers a view of three centuries of history and continues to play an important part in the future as the seat of government for Loudoun County.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Linden Grove
  Eearly 19th century house
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The house is a well-preserved example of an early 19th century house of a prosperous Frederick County farmer.
   
• Linganore Farm
  1800s farm
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Significant as an example of farmstead grouping associated with agriculture and grain production in Frederick County.
   
• Loudoun County Courthouse, Leesburg
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Three brick courthouses—dating from 1761, 1811, and 1895—have served Loudoun County on this same site. Slave auctions were once held on the steps.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Lucketts School
  An early 20th century schoolhouse
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  This little-altered 1913 elementary school is the principal landmark of Lucketts, a farming community steadily witnessing suburban encroachment.
   
• Lutheran Theological Seminary
  Lutheran seminary
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Adams County, PA
  The oldest continuing Lutheran seminary in America, the campus was part of the battle of Gettysburg when on July 1, 1863, it became a battleground and then the center of the Confederate line.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Madden's Tavern
  Civil War era log structure
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This 1840 simple log structure is a rare relic of pre-Civil War black entrepreneurship in rural Virginia.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Madison County Courthouse Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Madison County, VA
  Madison County has been a crossroads of history for over 11,000 years. Paleo-Indians, the royal governor Alexander Spottswood as well as Civil War Generals Stonewall Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart along with their men have all been visitors to Madison County.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District
  One of the state's best-preserved cultural landscapes
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  Encompassing roughly 40 square miles of Piedmont countryside, the Madison-Barbour historic district is one of the state's best-preserved cultural landscapes.
   
• Majestic Theater
  Open to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  A 1925 Colonial Revival vaudeville theater re-opens as a state-of-the-art cultural and performing arts center.
   
• Mayhurst
  1859 italian villa-style home
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The house was commissioned by Col. John Willis, a great-nephew of James Madison and was begun in 1859. It has been described as a delicious Victorian fantasy.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Middleburg Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The heart of Virginia's hunt country. With its tree-lined streets, brick sidewalks, and harmonious scale, the town has a diverse collection of late-18th- to early-20th-century architectural styles highlighted by early stone and brick structures.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Presidential, Revolutionary War
   
• Mitchells Presbyterian Church
  Church containing late-19th-century trompe l'oeil frescoes
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  This simple Carpenter's Gothic church contains the most elaborate example of late-19th-century, folk-style trompe l'oeil frescoes in the state.
   
• Monterosa
  The home of Virginia governor William Smith
  Closed to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  The lodge was the main residence of William Smith, two-term governor of Virginia (1846-49 and 1864-65). Sharing the site of this Italianate home is an extraordinary Italianate brick stable.
   
• Monticello
  Home of Thomas Jefferson
  Open to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. The gardens at Monticello were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
  Interests: Presidential, Revolutionary War
   
• Montpelier and Madison's Tomb
  Lifelong home of James Madison
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  Montpelier, the lifelong home of James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution" and fourth President of the United States, was also home to three generations of the Madison family from 1723 to 1844.
  Interests: Presidential
   
• Morven Park
  A museum, cultural center, and equestrian institute
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The focal point of the estate is a Greek Revival mansion on 1,200 acres once home to two Governors. Visitors are not only offered a house tour but also spectacular views and shaded trails.
   
• Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church (Aldie)
  An historic church and graveyard along the Old Carolina Road
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Mt. Zion Church was built to serve a congregation of approximately 400, including African-American freedmen and slaves. During the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and barracks and its graveyard as a cemetery for war casualties.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Nallin Farmhouse
  Stately country home of the Federal period
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The house embodies the distinctive characteristics of a stately Maryland country home of the Federal period.
   
• Oak Hill
  Home of President James Monroe
  Closed to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Home of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Oak Hill was visted by Lafayette during his tour of America, and it was here that Monroe penned the Monroe Doctrine.
  Interests: Presidential, Revolutionary War
   
• Oatlands
  A monumental mansion with outbuildings and gardens
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Visitors to the Oatlands mansion and gardens relive a piece of Virginia history as they follow the stories and lives of the families who lived here.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Oatlands Historic District
  Closed to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  A rural historic district that includes 300 acres on either side of Route 15, encompasses Oatlands plantation and several associated structures, including the archeological site of Oatlands Mill, Mountain Gap School, and the Church of our Savior.
   
• Old Fauquier County Jail
  A museum in old town Warrenton
  Open to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  This is a singular example of the state's early 19th century county penal architecture and provides a telling picture of conditions endured by inmates of such county facilities.
   
• Orange County Courthouse
  This 1850s building has all of the characteristics of an Italian villa
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  This building illustrates the public’s acceptance of exotic taste in late antebellum times. Designed by Charles and erected in 1858-59, the building has all of the major characteristics of the Italian Villa style.
   
• Point of Rocks Railroad Station
  post-Civil War railroad station
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The elaborate architecture of the Point of Rocks Railroad Station testifies to the significance of the railroad as the dominant institution in post-Civil War America, especially in small towns.
   
• Prospect Hall
  Mansion built in 1803
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Built in 1803 on the highest elevation in Frederick City, Prospect Hall has hosted visitors from Lafayette to Harry Truman. It was the location of General Meade's takeover of the Army of the Potomac immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg.
   
• Purcellville Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The town stands near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the center of the Loudoun Valley
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Rapidan Historic District
  1800s milling community known as Waugh's Ford
  Open to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  Rapidan began in the late 18th century as a small milling community known as Waugh's Ford. It was a strategic railroad stop and river crossing during the Civil War.
   
• Red Fox Inn
  1728 tavern
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  This 1728 tavern has been visited by George Washington, General Jeb Stuart, Colonel John Mosby and his famous Mounted Rangers, and, in more recent times, President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ambassador Pamela Harriman and Elizabeth Taylor.
  Interests: Revolutionary War
   
• Rockland
  Federal plantation dwelling
  Closed to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Rockland is an example of a Federal plantation dwelling.
   
• Rokeby
  In the War of 1812, the house was used to safekeep the Constitution and other documents
  Closed to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  During the War of 1812, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, much of George Washington's correspondences, and Congressional and State Department records, were brought to Rokeby for safekeeping.
   
• Rose Hill Manor
  Introduces families to their regional heritage
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The manor is now part of a Children's Museum offering tours and a broad calendar of events that introduce children and their families to their regional heritage through the study of 19th century life.
   
• Schifferstadt Architectural Museum
  A unique example of a 1756 German Colonial
  Open to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, a unique example of a 1756 German Colonial home, is the oldest known, free-standing building in the city of Frederick, Maryland.
   
• Sheads House
  Closed to the public. Located in Adams County, PA
  Built in 1862, this structure was known as Oak Ridge Seminary, one of three private girls schools in Gettysburg at the time of the Civil War.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Slaughter-Hill House
  A late 18th century urban vernacular structure
  Closed to the public. Located in Culpeper County, VA
  The core of the Slaughter-Hill House remains one of the region's rare examples of a one-room urban vernacular structure using planked log construction. It was built in the late 18th century.
   
• Somerset Christian Church
  Mid-19th-century country church
  Closed to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  This diminutive building is an unaltered example of a mid-19th-century country church and was erected circa 1857 to serve a small but active community of the Christian denomination in the rural neighborhood of Somerset.
   
• Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District
  This district includes some of the Piedmont's most pristine and scenic countryside
  Open to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  This district includes some of the Piedmont's most pristine and scenic countryside characterized by undulating pastures, winding roadways, forested hills, and small hamlets.
   
• Sperryville Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Rappahannock County, VA
  Sperryville's wood residences and visual charm have long made it a familiar stp for seasonal tourists to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  Interests: African American Heritage
   
• Spring Bank Farm
  Late-19th century dwelling
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  Significant for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of a type of late-19th century dwelling combining Gothic and Italianate influences.
   
• St. Euphemia's School and Sister's House
  20th century rural western Maryland school
  Closed to the public. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The school building is significant as an intact example of a turn of the 20th century rural western Maryland school of which few examples remain.
   
• St. Paul's Espiscopal Church
  Church used as a hospital during the Civil War
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Prince William County, VA
  The 1801 church was built as a district courthouse and then converted to an Episcopal church in 1822. It was used as a  hospital during the Civil War.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• St. Paul’s Church
  Church built in 1842
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Frederick County, MD
  The church was built by slaves belonging to the Duval plantation in 1842 on land donated using bricks made on the property.
   
• St. Thomas Church
  Served as a Confederate hospital
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Orange County, VA
  The church served as a Confederate hospital in the Civil War. It is noted for its stained glass windows, including one by Tiffany.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• The Lawn
  An 1855 country home
  Closed to the public. Located in Prince William County, VA
  Named for its immaculately maintained greensward, the English-born Savannah cotton merchant Charles Green established The Lawn in 1855 as a country home following his marriage to Greenwich native Lucy Ireland Hunton.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• The Residence, Woodberry Forest School
  Home of William Madison, brother of James Madison
  Closed to the public. Located in Madison County, VA
  This compact plantation house was built circa 1793 for William Madison, member of the Virginia House of Delegates for seven consecutive terms and brother of President James Madison.
   
• The Rotunda
  Jefferson-designed structure at the University of Virginia
  Open to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  The original grounds of the University of Virginia were designed by Jefferson to be what he called an "Academical Village." The Village includes a rectangular, terraced green space known as the Lawn; two parallel rows of buildings, the Pavilions, connected by colonnaded walkways and student rooms; and the Rotunda.
  Interests: Presidential
   
• University of Virginia Historic District
  Open to the public. Located in Albemarle County, VA
  The district includes Jefferson's original "academical village" with its classrooms and quarters, as well as the Rotunda-the focal point of Jefferson's design-and several buildings added by Stanford White.
   
• Wadell Memorial Presbyterian Church
  Church featuring Carpenter's Gothic architecture
  Open to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  The church was built in 1874 and is one Virginia's finest specimen of Carpenter's Gothic architecture.
   
• Warrenton Historic District
  An historic and vibrant Main Street community
  Open to the public. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  The rich and colorful history of the county where Chief Justice John Marshall grew up and Colonel John Singleton Mosby rode to fame is preserved in markers and monuments and in twelve stops on the Virginia Civil War Trails.
  Interests: Civil War
   
• Washington Historic District (Little Washington)
  Open to the public. Located in Rappahannock County, VA
  This Historic District is nicknamed, Little Washington, as it was laid out by George Washington in 1749.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War, Presidential
   
• Waterford Historic District
  A 19th century rural village
  Open to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  The Waterford Historic District is a remarkably intact example of an early-19th-century rural village surrounded by historic farmland. Its significance rests on the almost pristine appearance of the village and landscape. Nestled in the countryside of Loudoun County's northern tip, Waterford developed as a 19th-century Quaker milling community.
  Interests: African American Heritage, Civil War
   
• Waverly
  A late Victorian-style home
  Closed to the public. Located in Loudoun County, VA
  Built circa 1890, this is an excellent example of late Victorian architecture,  incorporating features of both the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.
   
• Weston Farmstead
  A farm museum
  Contact site before visiting. Located in Fauquier County, VA
  Weston and its important collection of outbuildings is now a farm museum.
   
• Willow Grove
  18th century home of Joseph Clark
  Closed to the public. Located in Orange County, VA
  Built in the late 18th century for Joseph Clark, this home is an example of the influence of Thomas Jefferson's Classical Revival.
  Interests: Civil War, Revolutionary War