Foster Falls Historic District

Foster Falls Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Foster Falls Furnace, April 2012
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Location	New River Trail State Park, 176 Orphanage Dr., near Max Meadows, Virginia
Coordinates	36°53′1″N 80°51′20″W / 36.88361°N 80.85556°W / 36.88361; -80.85556Coordinates: 36°53′1″N 80°51′20″W / 36.88361°N 80.85556°W / 36.88361; -80.85556
Area	16.5 acres (6.7 ha)
Built	1881 (1881)
Architect	Graham and Robinson
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP Reference #	09000925
VLR #	098-5141
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 12, 2009
Designated VLR	September 17, 2005

Foster Falls Historic District is a national historic district located near Max Meadows, Wythe County, Virginia. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the village of Foster Falls. They are primarily industrial and commercial buildings and structures built in the late-19th century. They include the iron furnace stack, the rail bed and frame railroad passenger station (c. 1887), a general store building, and a combination gristmill/sawmill. The district and includes the Foster Falls Hotel, a late-Victorian style brick building. The hotel property includes two brick dependencies associated with an orphanage that occupied the hotel building beginning in 1938. It now serves as the headquarters of the New River Trail State Park.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.