Preston Court Apartments

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Preston Court Apartments
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Location1600 Grady Ave., Charlottesville, Virginia
Coordinates 38°2′28″N78°29′58″W / 38.04111°N 78.49944°W / 38.04111; -78.49944
Arealess than one acre
Built1928 (1928)
Built byHartman, Frank E., Co
ArchitectMakielski, Stanislaw
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No. 07001134 [1]
VLR No.104-0239
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 29, 2007
Designated VLRSeptember 5, 2007 [2]

Preston Court Apartments is a historic apartment building in Charlottesville, Virginia, US built in 1928. It is a three-story, C-shaped, reinforced concrete building faced with brick. It has two two-story, five-bay, flat-roofed Ionic order porticos in the Classical Revival style. The building continues to be used as a rental/apartment building by the Hartman family. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1] It is located in the Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Maral S. Kalbian and Margaret T. Peters (June 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Preston Court Apartments" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos