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12/07/2025

Arnheim is a historic plantation house located at Radford, Virginia. It was built between 1838 and 1840 and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal/Greek Revival–style brick dwelling. It is a symmetrical double-pile plan dwelling, 40 feet square, and sitting on a raised brick basement. Arnheim was built by Dr. John Blair Radford, for whom the City of Radford is named. The property also includes a documented contributing archaeological site.

06/06/2025

There is something about the smell of an abandoned house, floating on the breeze through long forgotten, open windows.

05/18/2025

The Troy Roller Mill was erected in 1908-09 by stockholders of the Troy Milling Company. The land was bought for $220.00 and Mr. N.M. Thayer surveyed the property in consideration of $1.00. The bricks were hand-made in Montgomery County and the total cost of the building and machinery was $13,798.02. The Mill opened for business in 1910. It was a flour and grist mill until 1952 when a flash-fire destroyed the flour mill operations on the third floor. The Mill continued to be a community grist mill until 1970, when a terrible drought affected the corn crop and the last Miller, Mr. Horace Brasswell, became so afflicted with arthritis that he could no longer continue with the operations of the Mill. It sat dormant from 1971 until 1980-1981, when Mr. Hilton Cochran donated the building to the Montgomery County Historical Society.

04/16/2025

Country roads, take me home...

04/11/2025

Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, West Virginia.
The Mill is less than 35 years old.
It is a replica of the original Cooper's Mill that was located nearby.
It was completed in 1976 using parts and pieces of old mills, which were no longer in operation.
The basic structure comes from Stoney Creek Grist Mill, which was located in Pocahontas County and dates back to the 1890’s.
The giant wheel, which is pushed around by Glade Creek and, in turn, powers the giant grindstone, is from the Spring Run Grist Mill in Grant County.
Various other mills provided parts, including the Roaring Creek Grist Mill near Seneca Rocks.

10/09/2023

A handsome and well-maintained Italianate residence, the Thomas-Conner House was built in the 1870s for William Thomas. It later was inherited by the Conner family, who owned it for many years. Although the house employs the fashionable Italianate detailing of the 1870s, including round-arched windows and a deep bracketed cornice, the two-story, double-pile, center-passage format is a traditional residential formula used in the area over preceding decades. The restrained Italianate style echoes that used in the earliest buildings of Virginia Tech and may have shared common builders. The house stands prominently on one of the largest lots in the central area of the Montgomery County town of Blacksburg, signaling the fact that this was a prestigious location for a leading local family. In recent times the Thomas-Conner House was acquired by the town and sensitively adapted for office use.

The Thomas-Conner House was listed in the registers under the Prehistoric and Historic Resources of Montgomery County MPD. The property was removed from listing in the National Register of Historic Places as a result of an owner objection that, due to a procedural error, had not been submitted at the time of its listing. The Thomas-Conner House remains eligible for listing in the National Register as a good example of Italianate-Victorian residential architecture.

09/09/2023

Thanks for the feature Historical Homes of America!

Radford, VA, Victorian era house, photo by

08/31/2023

The man behind the camera.
📸: hdster54

05/27/2023

05/13/2023

Makes me wanna take a backroad...