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Historic district in Virginia, United States

Herndon Historic District

Herndon Historic District is a national historic district located at Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia.

The place

Herndon Historic District is a national historic district located at Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia. It encompasses 173 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Herndon. They include 104 houses, 20 commercial buildings, 6 institutional buildings, 4 industrial buildings, 30 garages, 8 barns, the pumphouse, the gas generating building, the water tower and the town square. Most of the buildings were constructed between 1890 and 1920. Notable buildings include the Town Hall (1939), Nachmans Department Store, National Bank of Herndon (1910), 5 and Dime Cafe (1920s), Sanitary Grocery Store, Loudoun Hall or

the Paine House, Benjamin Detweiler House (1890), and the Bicksler House. Located in the district is the separately listed Herndon Depot.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Herndon Historic District

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of the Epiphany

    The Church of the Epiphany is an Anglican church located in Chantilly, Virginia. It emphasizes "Encountering God through beautiful worship and believing prayer, building a multigenerational congregation that loves children and families and equipping every member to share the good news of Jesus Christ." Notable ministries and activities include a yearly free "Sports Camp" in Herndon for elementary-age students, bi-weekly worship and other ministry activities at the Arbor Terrace memory care home in Chantilly, and monthly donations of food that go home with students in need at Coates Elementary School in Herndon.

    3 km · church in Centerview Drive Chantilly VA , United States · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Herndon Historic District

Airports
Washington Dulles (IAD), 7 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 33 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 66 km
Stations
Innovation Center, 3.7 km · Reston Town Center, 2.8 km · Herndon Depot Museum, 200 m
  • Baltimore → Herndon Historic District
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · $7–10
  • Richmond → Herndon Historic District
    158 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $14–20
  • Philadelphia → Herndon Historic District
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · $20–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Herndon Historic District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Herndon Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundReston Paths is an extensive bike/walking path system.

From Wikivoyage: Reston, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    407 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    908 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,493 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,575 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,589 km

If you know how people move in Herndon Historic District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Herndon Historic District

Herndon Historic District is 31 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.