Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute Explained

Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:May 16, 1978[1]
Designated Other1 Number:154-5004
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:570 High St., Christiansburg, Virginia
Coordinates:37.1392°N -80.4058°W
Built:, 1888
Builder:Schaeffer, Charles S.
Architecture:Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne
Added:April 6, 1979
Refnum:79003056

Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute is a historic African American trade school complex located at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. The complex includes the Hill School (1885), the Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church (1885), and the Primary Annex (1888). The Hill School is a -story, cruciform-plan, gable-roof structure set on a low stone foundation. Although the building is stylistically in the Italianate mode, the windows suggest a Queen Anne Revival inspiration. The Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church is a Victorian Gothic brick church building with a gable-roof and projecting southeast corner tower. Connected to the church by a covered passageway is a wood-frame, tent-roof octagon, known as the Primary Annex.[2] A later building associated with the Christiansburg Industrial Institute is the separately listed Edgar A. Long Building built in 1927.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute . Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff. May 1978. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo