3010 High St., Portsmouth, Virginia. County/parish: Portsmouth.
Removed from the National Register of Historic Places June 24, 2025. NRIS 06000120.
1 contributing building.
The Circle was a historic building in Portsmouth, Virginia designed by Dorothy Pebworth and constructed in 1947 — as a single story, stuccoed concrete block building in the Moderne style — originally as a curb-service restaurant, subsequently becoming a dine-in restaurant.
The building's half-circle shape (in plan) featured a prominent facade topped with a neon-lit sign carrying the restaurant's name. Its interior bar featured a mural attributed to Al Hirschfeld of mid-20th century celebrities.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, the building was demolished on August 19, 2013 and removed from the National Register in 2017.
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