Skyline Drive Historic District
Added to the National Register in 1997, and a National Historic Landmark.
The record
| Property type | Historic district |
| Address | Shenandoah National Park, from the N entrance station at Front Royal to the S entrance station at Rockfish Gap, Luray, VA |
| County | Page County |
| Listed | Apr 28, 1997 |
| Listed for | Community planning, Conservation, Engineering, Architecture, Politics and government, Entertainment and recreation, Social history, Transportation, Landscape architecture |
| Level of significance | National |
| Reference number | 97000375 |
| Architect | Marcellus Wright, Jr. |
| Style | American Craftsman, National Park Service rustic |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark, Virginia Historic Landmark |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | Shenandoah National Park, from the N entrance station at Front Royal to the S entrance station at Rockfish Gap, Luray, VA |
| Coordinates | 38.5296° N, 78.4410° W · Directions ↗ |
| Also in Luray | 19 listed places in Luray → |
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Map
Nearby in Page County
Public land around it
| Shenandoah Wilderness ↗Wilderness, National Park Service | About 3 miles away79,579 acres |
Wilderness Atlas publishes a centroid and an acreage for each unit, not a boundary line. Distance here is measured to a circle of the same area drawn around that centroid, so treat it as roughly right rather than surveyed.
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Guidebooks to historic places in Virginia
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Reference
Questions people ask
When was Skyline Drive Historic District listed on the National Register?
Apr 28, 1997. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.
Source: National Park Service
Who designed Skyline Drive Historic District?
Marcellus Wright, Jr., working in the American Craftsman and National Park Service rustic style.
Source: Wikidata
Where is Skyline Drive Historic District?
Shenandoah National Park, from the N entrance station at Front Royal to the S entrance station at Rockfish Gap, Luray, Page County, Virginia.
Source: National Park Service
Where is the nomination form for Skyline Drive Historic District?
The National Archives holds the nomination form, the document that made the case for listing.
Source: National Archives
Sources
Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. The map point comes from Wikidata. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 97000375. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.