• R.R. Smith Center for History and Art*
  (Including Staunton Augusta Art Center)
  Restored railroad hotel, containing art exhibits.

• American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse **
  The only re-creation of Shakespeare's indoor playhouse in the world. Backstage tour and ongoing performances.

• Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Birthplace **
  Museum describing the life and important works of our 28th President and guided tour of the birthplace

• Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center*
  Beautifully renovated downtown hotel, walking distance from many attractions, an attraction in itself

• Victorian Architecture - T. J. Collins and Sons
  Including Stonewall Jackson Building*, City Hall*, Clock Tower*, Marquis Building*, Switzer Building ("Wedding Cake Building"), Opera House/City Courthouse*, Augusta County Courthouse*

• National Valley Bank*
  Bank & Bank Robbery Museum. Hear how Staunton recovered from the Civil War (Open only on weekdays)

• Sunspots*
  Glass blowing studio & showroom, offering live demonstrations**

• Mary Baldwin College
  Liberal arts college for women, including buildings of the former Staunton Military Academy, SMA-VWIL Museum*

• Trinity Church
  Tiffany windows, Revolutionary War Virginia Assembly fled here

• Stuart Hall School*
  Private school, K-12, once headed by Flora Stuart, widow of J.E.B.Stuart, Civil War officer.

• The Oaks
  Home of Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson’s mapmaker and boyhood home of Francis Collins, Director of NIH and former director of the Human Genome Project

• Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
  Founded 1839, beautiful architechture, Civil War Hospital

• Oakdene
  Home of Edward Echols, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

• Cabell log cabin
  Only remaining building in city with exposed logs.

• Public art*
  From the "super-sized" to the sublime.

• White Star Mills*
  Flour mill until recent times, now a restaurant

• Wharf area
  Restored train station* and hotel* and restaurants*

• Stuart House
  Beautiful private home built in 1791

• Dixie Theater*
  Historic Downtown movie theater, now a 4 plex, soon to be a performing arts center

• Temple House of Israel
  Home of our Jewish synagogue

• Thornrose Cemetery*
  Beautiful historic cemetery with section for Confederate dead

• Statler Brothers
  Venue, tribute, former complex and gift shop*

• Gypsy Hill Park* and Pump House
  Beautiful municipal park with many attractions

• Stonewall Brigade Band
  Oldest municipally funded band in the country

• African-American Churches
  Two designed by T.J.Collins

• St. Francis Catholic Church
  Beautiful greenstone church designed by member T.J.Collins

• Antique dealers*
  Find your own "find"

• Civil War in Staunton
  Sites to see, stories to hear

• Jumbo Fire Engine*
  Staunton's first motorized fire engine from 1911, restored, the only one like it remaining.

• Frontier Culture Museum **
  Not on the downtown tour
  Four 17th-19th century farms from Europe and America, working blacksmith forge.

  * Interior usually open for visitors
  ** Site tour available

  Much of this information comes from the
     Historic Staunton Foundation.

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