National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia

Map of Virginia

Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places :

As of September 18, 2017, there are 3,027 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 95 Virginia counties and 37 of the 38 independent cities, including 120 National Historic Landmarks and National Historic Landmark Districts, four National Historical Parks, two national monuments, two National Battlefield Parks, one National Memorial, one National Battlefield and one National Military Park.

      This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 28, 2025. ^[1]

Current listings by county and independent city

Map of Virginia counties and independent cities

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond

Newport News Middle Ground Light, Newport News

Cape Charles Lighthouse, Kiptopeke

Cape Henry (Second Tower) Light Station, Fort Story

Shot Tower, Max Meadows

Yeocomico Church, Tucker Hill

Tazewell County Courthouse, Tazewell Historic District, Tazewell

Little Fork Church, Rixeyville

DeJarnette's Tavern, Nathalie

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county and independent city. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 ^[2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. ^[3] There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. The counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

	County/City	# of Sites
1	Accomack	30
2	Albemarle	104
3	Alexandria (city)	51
4	Alleghany	14
5	Amelia	10
6	Amherst	38
7	Appomattox	8
8	Arlington	70
9	Augusta	60
10	Bath	25
11	Bedford	36
12	Bland	4
13	Botetourt	31
14	Bristol (city)	13
15	Brunswick	12
16	Buchanan	1
17	Buckingham	12
18	Buena Vista (city)	6
19	Campbell	19
20	Caroline	22
21	Carroll	10
22	Charles City	31
23	Charlotte	20
24	Charlottesville (city)	67
25	Chesapeake (city)	10
26	Chesterfield	29
27	Clarke	41
28	Colonial Heights (city)	8
29	Covington (city)	5
30	Craig	6
31	Culpeper	29
32	Cumberland	17
33	Danville (city)	22
34	Dickenson	1
35	Dinwiddie	18
36	Emporia (city)	7
37	Essex	19
38	Fairfax	68
39	Fairfax (city)	6
40	Falls Church (city)	6
41	Fauquier	70
42	Floyd	11
43	Fluvanna	18
44	Franklin	26
45	Franklin (city)	5
46	Frederick	31
47	Fredericksburg (city)	28
48	Galax (city)	5
49	Giles	11
50	Gloucester	34
51	Goochland	25
52	Grayson	8
53	Greene	9
54	Greensville	3
55	Halifax	39
56	Hampton (city)	30
57	Hanover	46
58	Harrisonburg (city)	14
59	Henrico	35
60	Henry	19
61	Highland	8
62	Hopewell (city)	9
63	Isle Of Wight	21
64	James City	19
65	King and Queen	17
66	King George	15
67	King William	21
68	Lancaster	13
69	Lee	9
70	Lexington (city)	18
71	Loudoun	99
72	Louisa	21
73	Lunenburg	11
74	Lynchburg (city)	56
75	Madison	21
76	Manassas (city)	7
77	Manassas Park (city)	2
78	Martinsville (city)	8
79	Mathews	16
80	Mecklenburg	28
81	Middlesex	16
82	Montgomery	71
83	Nelson	30
84	New Kent	18
85	Newport News (city)	36
86	Norfolk (city)	63
87	Northampton	30
88	Northumberland	27
89	Norton (city)	1
90	Nottoway	12
91	Orange	36
92	Page	33
93	Patrick	13
94	Petersburg (city)	45
95	Pittsylvania	23
96	Poquoson (city)	0
97	Portsmouth (city)	23
98	Powhatan	20
99	Prince Edward	15
100	Prince George	10
101	Prince William	45
102	Pulaski	24
103	Radford (city)	8
104	Rappahannock	19
105	Richmond	10
106	Richmond (city)	232
107	Roanoke	13
108	Roanoke (city)	56
109	Rockbridge	52
110	Rockingham	44
111	Russell	11
112	Salem (city)	19
113	Scott	10
114	Shenandoah	38
115	Smyth	24
116	Southampton	19
117	Spotsylvania	17
118	Stafford	21
119	Staunton (city)	36
120	Suffolk (city)	26
121	Surry	20
122	Sussex	10
123	Tazewell	23
124	Virginia Beach (city)	36
125	Warren	25
126	Washington	17
127	Waynesboro (city)	11
128	Westmoreland	25
129	Williamsburg (city)	15
130	Winchester (city)	23
131	Wise	21
132	Wythe	22
133	York	12
(duplicates)		(68) [4]
Total:		3,311

Gallery

• 
  Debtors' Prison, Accomac
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  Bob White Covered Bridge, Woolwine
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  Carter Hall, Millwood
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  Lucketts School, Leesburg
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  Swannanoa, Waynesboro
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  Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Norfolk
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  George Washington's Gristmill, Lorton
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  Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District, Quantico
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  J. W. Wood Building, Lynchburg
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  Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke
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  Petersburg Courthouse, Petersburg
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  Exchange Hotel, Gordonsville
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  Beverley Historic District, Staunton
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  Shenandoah Historic District, Shenandoah
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  Shirley Plantation, Hopewell
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  Francis Scott Key Bridge, Arlington
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  Leander McCormick Observatory, Charlottesville
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  Lincoln Theatre, Marion
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  Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria

See also

• Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
• List of historic houses in Virginia
• List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
• Virginia Landmarks Register

References

1. National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved February 28, 2025.
2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
3. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 26, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2009.
4. The following sites are listed in more than one county or city: Benjamin Banneker: SW-9 Intermediate Boundary Stone (Arlington, Falls Church (city)), Bear's Den Rural Historic District (Clarke, Loudoun), Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery (Carroll, Floyd), Cartersville Bridge (Cumberland, Goochland), Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove (Frederick, Shenandoah, Warren), Clarkton Bridge (Charlotte, Halifax), Cleridge (Clarke, Frederick), Colonial National Historical Park (James City, Williamsburg (city), York), Douthat State Park Historic District (Alleghany, Bath), Fortsville (Southampton, Sussex), Georgetown Pike (Arlington, Fairfax), Greenwood-Afton Historic District (Albemarle, Augusta, and Nelson), Haines Chapel and Cemetery (Nelson and Rockbridge), High Bridge (Cumberland and Prince Edward), James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District (Henrico, Richmond (city)), Keswick (Chesterfield, Powhatan), Manassas National Battlefield Park (Fairfax, Prince William), Milford Battlefield (Page, Warren), Millers Tavern Rural Historic District (Essex, King and Queen), Gen. William Mitchell House (Fauquier, Loudoun), Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Alexandria (city), Arlington, Fairfax), Norfolk Southern Six Mile Bridge No. 58 (Amherst, Campbell), Northwest No. 3 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Page County Bridge No. 1990 (Page, Warren), Rapidan Historic District (Culpeper, Orange), Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge Piers (Fairfax, Prince William), Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District (Prince William, Stafford), Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District (Albemarle, Charlottesville (city)), Saltville Battlefields Historic District (Smyth, Washington), Sayler's Creek Battlefield (Amelia, Prince Edward) Scottsville Historic District (Albemarle, Fluvanna), Seven Islands Archeological and Historic District (Buckingham, Fluvanna), Skyline Drive Historic District (Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Madison, Page, Rockingham, Rappahannock, Warren), Southwest No. 4 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Alexandria (city), Arlington), Southwest No. 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Alexandria (city), Arlington), Southwest No. 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Southwest No. 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Southwest No. 8 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Swannanoa (Augusta, Nelson), Thoroughfare Gap Battlefield (Fauquier, Prince William), George Washington Memorial Parkway (Arlington, Fairfax), West Cornerstone (Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church), Woolen Mills Village Historic District (Albemarle, Charlottesville (city)), Beverley Mill (Fauquier, Prince William), Broad Run-Little Georgetown Rural Historic District (Fauquier, Prince William), Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg (city), Spotsylvania County), Blue Ridge Tunnel (Augusta, Nelson), Blue Ridge Parkway (11 counties)