Mountain Road Historic District

{{short description|Historic district in Virginia, United States}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name =Mountain Road Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = August 16, 1983{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 230-0078

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Mountain Road, St. John's parish complex.jpg

| caption = St. John's Church and parish hall

| location = Roughly Mountain Rd. from Mimosa Dr. to Academy St., Halifax, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|36|45|59|N|78|56|07|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| architect = Multiple

| architecture = Colonial Revival, Late Victorian

| added = October 6, 1983

| area = {{convert|67|acre}}

| refnum = 83004245{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Mountain Road Historic District is a national historic district in Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia. The district includes 22 contributing buildings located along Mountain Road (State Route 360) and consists of two churches, a parish hall, a masonic hall, and a host of private residences dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Masonic Lodge (1828), Methodist Church (1831), St. John's Episcopal Church (1844), Magnolia Hill, Grand Oaks, and St. John's Rectory. Several of the earlier dwellings and St. John's Episcopal Church were designed by Dabney Cosby, Jr., son of the Jeffersonian workman, Dabney Cosby, Sr.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Halifax/230-0078_Mountain_Road_Historic_District_1983_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mountain Road Historic District |author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff | date=August 1983 |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Halifax/MountainRdHD_photo.htm Accompanying photo] and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Halifax/Mt_Rd.pdf Accompanying map]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.