Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 2010, the Woolen Mills Village Historic District is the neighborhood you are walking through. Here the story of a neighborhood unfolds across Charlottesville and Albemarle County. You can imagine the rhythms of daily life threaded through the streets named in the designation: Chesapeake, Franklin, Steephill, 18th NE, and East Market Streets and Riverside Avenue in the City of Charlottesville, and Pireus Row, Marchant and East Market Streets in Albemarle County.
Within this district sits the Woolen Mills Chapel, a building already honored on the National Register and documented at 1819 East Market Street in local records. The district's listing in 2010 recognizes the cluster of places that together tell a local story: homes, chapel, and the lanes that link them. Stand here and let your attention travel along the avenues and rows preserved by that listing - notice the way East Market Street ties city and county, and how Riverside Avenue runs beside them.
Read this neighborhood slowly, facade by facade, street name by street name, until you reach the Chapel at 1819 East Market Street.