Young Building
historic commercial building in Virginia, United States
Young Building is a historic office building located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1916, and is a two-story, five-bay, single pile brick building in the Jacobean Revival style. It has a large rear wing. The main block has a medium-pitched gabled roof with deeply projecting eaves and decoratively shaped rafter ends. It was built to house the offices for the J. S. Young and Company sumac mill across the street. The building was adapted for residential use after 1939.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The public source identifies “Young Building” as historic commercial building in Virginia, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Young, Building and historic.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16904152. Authority coordinates are 38.021, -78.468. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1939 and 1982.
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