Area surrounding Greenbriar Branch Rd. and VA 42, Newport, Virginia. County/parish: Giles.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 25, 1994. NRIS 94000059.
50 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites.Also known as:
Newport Historic District is a national historic district located at Newport, Giles County, Virginia. It encompasses 50 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the rural village of Newport. The district includes primarily freestanding single-family dwellings or store buildings of one or two stories, featuring wood-frame construction, wood siding or ornamental metal sheathing, front porches, and associated outbuildings. Notable buildings include the Epling-Dunkley[or Dunklee]-Smith House (1820s-1830s), Keister-Miller House (1846), Robert Payne House (1850s), Payne-Price House, the Miller Building (c. 1902), the Pent Taylor Store (c. 1902), the Miller Brothers General Mercantile Store (c. 1902), F.E. Dunkley [Dunklee] Store (c. 1902–1903), Pasterfield House (1903), Dr. Walter Miller House (1903-1904), Albert Price House (1904), Methodist Parsonage (1909), Newport Methodist Church (1850s, 1906), and Sinking Creek Valley Bank (1927).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is included in the Greater Newport Rural Historic District.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680899