{"nrhp_refnum":"00001439","name":"Glencoe","other_names":["Gabriel Wharton House","126-0045"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"First St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Radford (Independent City)","county":"Radford","state":"VA","lat":37.132264580000026,"lon":-80.58018859899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Glencoe, also called the Gabriel Wharton House, is a large two-story brick dwelling with an English basement overlooking the New River in the West Radford section of Radford, Virginia. Tax records suggest it was built around 1875.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant under Criterion C for architecture. It combines Second Empire and Italianate features with a regional double-pile, central-passage plan, and keeps elaborate graining, molded plaster ceilings and a basement divided into family and servant areas. It was also the home of General Gabriel Wharton and his family during the growth of Radford.","narrative":"Glencoe is a large brick house on a terrace above the New River in West Radford, Virginia. Tax records first list it in 1876, which suggests construction in 1875, though family tradition gives an earlier date. Built for Gabriel Wharton and his family, it combines Second Empire and Italianate features with a double-pile, central-passage plan. It rises from a high English basement and has a slate-covered deck-on-hip roof, small gables with brick tympanums, projecting bays and a one-story front porch. Inside, the first floor retains grained woodwork, molded plaster ceilings and medallions, and matching mantels in the front rooms. The basement separates family rooms from servant and service spaces. No other house in the community matched its scale or expense apart from nearby Arnheim. It was listed for its architectural character, with a period of significance from 1875 to 1949, and it remains a single-family dwelling after recent restoration.","period_of_significance":"1875-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Second Empire","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a single dwelling; recent restoration work is described, including the cornice, lattice and removal of later additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.604021-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/6828/41682805/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/00001439.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001439/573f67e3f8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001439/573f67e3f8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glencoe_Radford_Virginia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Skye Marthaler</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glencoe_Radford_Virginia.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682805","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencoe_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21405624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/radford/glencoe-00001439/"}