Salvation Army Citadel (Roanoke, Virginia)

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Salvation Army Citadel
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Salvation Army Citadel in 2020
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Location821 Salem Avenue, SW, Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates 37°16′25″N79°57′23″W / 37.273611°N 79.956394°W / 37.273611; -79.956394
Area1.03 acres (0.42 ha)
Built1941 (1941)
ArchitectEubank & Caldwell
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 100008648 [1]
VLR No.128-5343
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 7, 2020
Designated VLRJune 18, 2020 [2]

The Salvation Army Citadel is a historic religious building in Roanoke, Virginia. Built in 1941 in the Colonial Revival style, the site was the headquarters for the Salvation Army's operations in Roanoke, including church services, social services, and outreach. After the church constructed a new primary location in 1980, the building served as the Red Shield Lodge, a men's homeless shelter, until closing in 2018. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020, and reopened that year as an apartment building.

History

The Salvation Army began operations in Roanoke in 1884. [3] The institution aimed many of its resources toward reaching poor and disadvantaged citizens, often foregoing traditional church buildings in favor of evangelizing in the streets and in commercial establishments. The church did have various physical locations in the city during the late-19th and early-20th centuries, including a former Salem Avenue saloon purchased in 1916 for $37,000. [4] The organization remained in that building until 1941, when it was sold and work began on a new headquarters ("citadel") farther west on the same street. [5] A fundraising drive provided $20,000 of the eventual $50,000 cost for the new location. [6]

Roanoke's vice-mayor laid the site's cornerstone in a May 4 ceremony. [7] The building's architect was Eubank and Caldwell, a local firm responsible for at least eight other locations eventually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] The citadel was designed in the Colonial Revival style; a two-story block with basement occupies the property's southern end and a gymnasium the northern. [3] The exterior is concrete with a red brick veneer done in Flemish bond. The southern façade is symmetrical, and features a pair of cut stone pilasters to either side of a recessed entrance. [3]

The citadel's interior featured a space used as both an auditorium and chapel on the first floor, while the second included classrooms as well as an office for the church's commanding officer and an apartment for the assistant officer. [3] The gymnasium's walls are made of painted concrete, and its floor is maple and was installed with the tongue and groove method. [3]

More than 700 people attended the citadel's dedication on October 12, 1941. [8] The church soon began offering services in the building, including home economics, lodging for women, preschool programs, and food and clothing drives for the needy. [3] [9] A 1941 Christmas drive provided care packages to over 250 Roanoke-area families. [10]

In 1948, Roanoke's mayor presided over the church's mortgage burning ceremony in honor of completing its final payment on the citadel. [11] By 1951 the local chapter had 250 members and an annual budget of over $40,000. [12]

The citadel served as the church's headquarters in Roanoke until 1980, when the organization spent $1.3 million to obtain and renovate a former elementary school located in the southeast portion of the city. [13] The remainder of its $2 million fundraising drive was spent renovating the former headquarters on Salem Avenue. [13] The citadel was redeveloped into the Red Shield Lodge, a shelter for homeless men. [14] Its chapel became a 50-bed dormitory, and the second floor held 12 beds for men transitioning out of the shelter. [14] The building operated in this fashion until 2018, when declining use made the Salvation Army decide to close the shelter. [15] While it was initially intended to be razed, a local developer purchased the property in 2019. [16] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020, and later that year reopened as apartments and retail space. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "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 October 27, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Venable, David C. (February 2020). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Salvation Army Citadel" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
  4. ↑ "Salvation Army Acquires Saloon". The Roanoke Times. November 22, 1916. p. 6.
  5. ↑ "Salvation Army Sells its Old Citadel for $16,000". The Roanoke Times. March 15, 1941. p. 5.
  6. ↑ "Salvation Army Plans Approved". The Roanoke Times. February 9, 1941. p. 35.
  7. ↑ "Henebry Lays Cornerstone For New Citadel". The Roanoke Times. May 5, 1941. p. 3.
  8. ↑ "Salvation Army Opens Citadel". The Roanoke Times. October 13, 1941. p. 3.
  9. ↑ "Salvation Army Helping Needy". The Roanoke Times. December 23, 1941. p. 3.
  10. ↑ "Baskets Given Out To Needy Families". The Roanoke Times. December 26, 1941. p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Citadel Work Praised In Salvation Army Ceremony". The Roanoke Times. February 23, 1948. p. 3.
  12. ↑ "Salvation Army Is First Of All a Religious Force". The Roanoke Times. October 1, 1951. p. 3.
  13. 1 2 Poindexter, Joanne (June 2, 1980). "Salvation Army Center Dedicated; Efforts of Area Citizens Praised". The Roanoke Times. p. 13.
  14. 1 2 Poindexter, Joanne (June 24, 2008). "Neighborhood Profile: The Salvation Army Red Shield Lodge". The Roanoke Times. p. 10.
  15. ↑ Scachetti, Leanna (March 16, 2018). "Roanoke's Salvation Army to close Red Shield Lodge Homeless Shelter". WDBJ7. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  16. 1 2 Boles, Ashley (September 2, 2020). "Old Salvation Army-owned Red Shield Lodge successfully transformed into apartments, commercial use space". WDBJ7. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
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