Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute

United States historic place

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Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute, September 2013
37°8′21″N 80°24′21″W / 37.13917°N 80.40583°W / 37.13917; -80.40583
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1885 (1885), 1888
Built by	Schaeffer, Charles S.
Architectural style	Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	79003056^[1]
VLR No.	154-5004
Added to NRHP	April 6, 1979
Designated VLR	May 16, 1978^[2]

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 2+1⁄2-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.^[3] 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.^[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. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (May 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Christiansburg Industrial Institute" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo