Rorer Hall
Rorer Hall is a memorial in Roanoke, Southwest Virginia, Virginia. Rorer Hall is situated nearby to the public building Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building, as well as near the bus station Greyhound Terminal.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roanoke Warehouse Historic District and Roanoke station.
Roanoke Warehouse Historic District
Park
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Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, also known as 'Wholesale Row," is a national historic district located at Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses five contributing buildings constructed between 1889 and 1902.
Roanoke station
Railway station
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Roanoke station is a train station in Roanoke, Virginia, the current southern terminus of Amtrak's Northeast Regional line. Built in 2017, it follows several other Roanoke passenger stations that operated from the 1850s to 1979. Roanoke station is situated 1,300 feet northeast of Rorer Hall.
Taubman Museum of Art
Museum
The Taubman Museum of Art, formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia, is an art museum in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Formally established in 1951, the museum was housed in several locations around Roanoke before moving in 2008 to its current home, a contemporary architecture building designed by Randall Stout. Taubman Museum of Art is situated 2,100 feet east of Rorer Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wasena and Mountain View.
Wasena
Quarter
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Wasena is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in south, central Roanoke bisected by U.S. Route 221, immediately to the south of the Roanoke River.
Mountain View
Quarter
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Mountain View is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke north of the Roanoke River. It borders the neighborhoods of Norwich on the west, West End on the east, Hurt Park on the north and Raleigh Court and Wasena on the south.
West End
Suburb
West End is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke south of the Norfolk Southern railyard. It borders the neighborhoods of Hurt Park and Mountain View on the west, Downtown on the east, Gilmer on the north across the Norfolk Southern railyard and Old Southwest on the south.
Rorer Hall
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “‘On this corner stood Rorer Hall, or ’The Opera House‘, a two-story wooden building erected in 1878 by Ferdinand Rorer, merchant and developer. It was used for civic and entertainment events and for municipal offices by the new City of Roanoke until 1888.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Roanoke, Southwest Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.27164° or 37° 16′ 18″ northLongitude
-79.94553° or 79° 56′ 44″ westOpen location code
879273C3+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 10604909333OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building and Greyhound Terminal.
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