Boyce Historic District

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Boyce Historic District
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Boyce Historic District, September 2012
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LocationIncludes Crescent Sts., Greenway Ave., Huntingdon Ln., Main St. Old Chapel Ave., Railroad Ln., Saratoga, VA, and Whiting, Boyce, Virginia
Coordinates 39°5′36″N78°3′41″W / 39.09333°N 78.06139°W / 39.09333; -78.06139
Area102 acres (41 ha)
Built1880 (1880)
Architectural styleLate Victorian, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No. 04000155 [1]
VLR No.172-0001
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 8, 2004
Designated VLRDecember 3, 2003 [2]

Boyce Historic District is a national historic district located at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It encompasses 154 contributing buildings in the town of Boyce. They include a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings dating from 1880 to the 1920s. Notable buildings include the Boyce Colored School (1885), Mount Zion Baptist Church (1910), Simpson's Store and later Boyce Grocery, former Boyce Bank now used as the Town Hall (1908), Boyce railroad station (1913), Boyce United Methodist Church (1916), and Emmanuel Chapel Episcopal Church (1916). [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

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References

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