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Centre Street and Water Street

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1880s-early 20th century. 200 block of Centre St. and 100–300 blocks of E. Water St.

Most of the former saloons have fallen down, but the Pocahontas Post Office (c. 1908; 241 Centre), a Renaissance Revival two-story brick building, still stands. It has a first story with white bricks used to represent mortar joints in a simulation of rustication. A pressed-metal modillion cornice finishes the building. Another survivor is the company doctor's office (1906; E. Water) just east of Centre Street. The nearby two-and-a-half-story brick former company hospital (1908; 153 E. Water) has the comforting look of a house with its one-story Tuscan porch across the facade and hipped roof with a dormer. At 370 E. Water the one-and-a-half-story board-and-batten house with a shed dormer and a front porch is typical of 1880s company housing. An exhibition mine and museum (TZ19) recounts the history of the mining process.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Pocahontas Exhibition Mine and Museum
Lathrop House
Old City Hall and Opera House
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church and Rectory
Pocahontas Cemetery

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Centre Street and Water Street", [Pocahontas, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-TZ14.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 490-490.

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