Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Colony House Motor Lodge was developed by Glover and Richard Trent, a pair of brothers who were businessmen in Roanoke during the mid-20th century. [3] The brothers built the motel on Franklin Road, the primary thoroughfare into the city from the south, at a location which at the time was part of Roanoke County and located outside the developed portion of the area. [4]
John White (c. 1539 –c. 1593) was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer.White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition.
The Patrick Henry Hotel is a Colonial Revival former hotel listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Located at 617 South Jefferson Street at the southern end of Downtown, the Patrick Henry was designed by William Lee Stoddart and opened in 1925 . [ 3 ]
Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia–North Carolina border and 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Washington, D.C., along Interstate 81. At the 2020 census, Roanoke's population was 100,011, making it the most-populous city in Virginia west of the state capital Richmond. [6]
Designed by the firm of Clark Tribble Harris & Li Architects, the tower is postmodern and is the tallest building in both Roanoke and all of Southwest Virginia. [3] [5] It is topped with a 50-foot (15 m) copper pyramid with a 48-foot (15 m) spire atop it, and was designed as a homage to the Hotel Roanoke, located to the north of the tower. [5]
Annexed into Roanoke in 1976, Southern Hills is an area of contrasts with higher density residential and commercial development along 220 and rural, low density development at its interior. [54] Villa Heights. Villa Heights is located in northern Roanoke and is bound by Cove Road, Lafayette Boulevard, Melrose Avenue and the Roanoke Country Club ...
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
Location of Roanoke in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Roanoke, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Roanoke, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...