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A former downtown firehouse now houses a popular restaurant, as well as a boutique hotel and furniture showroom.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, stock car engines roared at Starkey Speedway.
The former Hollins University dining hall has transformed into a multi-use space for student activities.
In the 1920s and ’30s, a female dormitory at Viscose was the center of life for hundreds of workers.
Once part of a prominent Roanoke Valley banking legacy dating back to 1910, the Vinton building continues its financial roots today as a Truist Bank location.
For six decades, the Catawba Sanatorium treated patients ravaged by tuberculosis.
Roanoke’s first Black high school, Lucy Addison High, is now being reinvented as a Community Empowerment Center.
Dr. E. G. Gill was a tireless humanitarian who put Roanoke at the epicenter of sight preservation.
Mount Regis, once a tuberculosis sanitorium starting in 1914, became an addiction treatment center before the original building was destroyed by fire in 2016.
In 1895, America’s sacred relic went on a national tour to reconcile the nation.
A former downtown firehouse now houses a popular restaurant, as well as a boutique hotel and furniture showroom.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, stock car engines roared at Starkey Speedway.
The former Hollins University dining hall has transformed into a multi-use space for student activities.
In the 1920s and ’30s, a female dormitory at Viscose was the center of life for hundreds of workers.
Once part of a prominent Roanoke Valley banking legacy dating back to 1910, the Vinton building continues its financial roots today as a Truist Bank location.
For six decades, the Catawba Sanatorium treated patients ravaged by tuberculosis.
Roanoke’s first Black high school, Lucy Addison High, is now being reinvented as a Community Empowerment Center.
Dr. E. G. Gill was a tireless humanitarian who put Roanoke at the epicenter of sight preservation.
Mount Regis, once a tuberculosis sanitorium starting in 1914, became an addiction treatment center before the original building was destroyed by fire in 2016.
In 1895, America’s sacred relic went on a national tour to reconcile the nation.
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