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The Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory is a historic factory complex located at Martinsville, Virginia.The main factory was built in 1929, and is a long, three-story, brick building that was constructed for the purpose of manufacturing small pieces of furniture called "novelty" pieces in the furniture trade.
Ruud worked for George Westinghouse (1846–1914), but eventually bought the rights to produce the product he invented and formed his own company in 1897. In 1913, Ruud merged and absorbed the Humphrey Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan which also manufactured water heaters. [31]
Fairfield is a Georgian-style plantation house built of native limestone around 1770 at the center of a 1,600-acre landholding. In addition to being the oldest building in the district, Fairfield was the home of Warner Washington (1715-1791), a first-cousin of George Washington , and is considered to be the best example in the district of the ...
Markham Historic District is a national historic district located at Markham, Fauquier County, Virginia.It encompasses 44 contributing buildings and 4 contributing sites in the rural villages of Farrowsville and Markham.
East Radford Historic District is a national historic district located at Radford, Virginia.It encompasses 302 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a mixed residential and commercial section of Radford, comprising most of the historic boundaries of the town of Central Depot.
Furniture retailer Conn's Home Plus is closing all 170 stores, affecting 4,000 employees across 15 states, including a location across from Cross Creek Mall in Skibo Road's Cross Creek Plaza.
Notable buildings include the Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation building (c. 1771), hosteller's house for Rector's Ordinary (c. 1800), a store and Confederate post office (c. 1805), the Elgin House (c. 1820, 1892), former Marshall Pharmacy (c. 1830), the Foley Building (c. 1830), the Gothic Revival style Trinity Episcopal Church ...
By 1911, the Roanoke Street Railway Company completed a streetcar line between Raleigh Court/Virginia Heights and downtown. [6] With this streetcar extension, development of the commercial establishments of the present-day Grandin Village accelerated. [3] In 1919, Virginia Heights was annexed into the city of Roanoke.