Culture Crossings

• Horse Pull Toy
  West Main Street sidewalk near Town Square
  Nikki Pynn reimagined pre-existing features of the sidewalk to transform them into a classic toy.
• Flowers & Bees
  945 Cambria Street 
  Katy Shepard painted images that pay tribute to the environment on a storm drain to remind people of the value and importance of sustainable practices. This mural shows the importance of bees for pollination.
• Farmers Market Robot
  Hickok Street
  The Appalachian Power box on Hickok Street was painted by the Tuxedo Pandas: Team 4924, a program of the New River Robotics Association.
• Cambria Lilies
  Corner of Cambria Street & Wilson Street
  Artist Katy Shepard continued to put her environmental stamp on Cambria with these serene images of lilies on a storm drain.

Other Art

• Great Road Mural 
  2 East Main Street (inside Post Office) 

  This mural, entitled “Great Road,” was one of many murals commissioned for post offices across the country by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Project Administration. This painting was completed in 1939 by John DeGroot and portrays the settlement of the Appalachian frontier. The post office itself is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Peace Sculpture 
  755 Roanoke Street
  This public memorial beam stands outside of the Montgomery County Government Center and was acquired and donated by the Rotary Club of Montgomery County. The beam was salvaged from the debris of Ground Zero in New York City. It now stands as a public memorial to remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001. Dick Gilbert, then-president of the club, wanted to “find something beautiful from the ashes.” 

• Smiling Fish
  19 West Main Street 
  This piece of artwork, created by Roanoke artist and welder Dave Wertz, was installed in the Downtown Historic District in 2017.  “Smiling Fish” was commissioned by owners of the Old Town Mall to help beautify Downtown Christiansburg. 

• "Wings and Wheels" 
  100 East Main Street
  This artwork, created by artist Nikki Pynn, was inspired by local cyclists and their practice of pushing themselves uphill to experience the feeling of flying down the other side. 

Historic Buildings

• Barnes-Surface Building 
  4 West Main Street

  This early 1900s building was once the home of the automobile and tractor dealership, Barnes-Surface Motor Company Ford. 

• Cambria Freight Depot
  630 Depot Street NE
  Located in the Cambria Historic District, this depot station was built in 1868 and is one of only two railroad depots built in Virginia during the Reconstruction Period that remains standing today. It replaced an earlier station that was burned by Union Soldiers during the Civil War. The depot served as a passenger station until 1906, when a new passenger station was built, but continued to operate as a freight station until the 1960s. 

• Christiansburg Institute Edgar A. Long Building 
  140 Scattergood Drive
  Built in 1927 and named after a former principal, this building is the only remaining structure of the 14-building Christiansburg Institute campus. Christiansburg Institute grew from a small school for former enslaved people into a renowned high school for African Americans until its closure during school integration in 1966. The preservation, collection and interpretation of the school’s century-long history is managed by a coalition consisting of Christiansburg Institute Inc., Christiansburg Institute Alumni Association and Old Hill School. A small museum is located on the property in a replica of a smokehouse built in 1988 by the Christiansburg Institute Alumni Association.

• Hans Meadows 
  1800 Depot Street NE
  John Craig, an early settler of the region, owned a considerable tract of land known as Hans Meadows. His son, James Craig, operated a tavern on this site. The surviving brick house was built in 1849; the rear section and hip roof were added in the early twentieth century. In 1792, James donated 175 acres to establish the Town of Christiansburg and build the first Montgomery County courthouse.

• Montgomery Museum of Art and History
  4 E. Main Street
  The museum houses rotating history and art exhibits, as well as an extensive archive of documents, genealogical information and photographs that the public can use to conduct research about the region and its historic families. The Montgomery Museum offers six off-site art galleries: Route 8 Donuts, Haga Law, Hometown Bank, Farmhouse, On Main Street/Great Road Events and the Christiansburg Public Library.

• The Oaks Victorian Inn 
  311 East Main Street
  This Queen Anne-style house was built for Major W. L. Pierce and his wife, Julia, in 1893. At the time of its construction, the house was considered to be “in the country.” The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  

• Old Hill School and Schaeffer Memorial Church 
  570 High Street
  Captain Charles S. Schaeffer, a Union soldier and Baptist minister, came to Christiansburg as an officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau. He helped found the Memorial Church on High Street and the Old Hill School in 1867. The school began as a small gathering of twelve former enslaved people with a desire to get an education, but grew into a significant institution serving more than 200 students. The school later became known as the Christiansburg Institute. Both of these buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places.