{"nrhp_refnum":"01001515","name":"Ruffner House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"440 Ruffner House Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Luray","county":"Page County","state":"VA","lat":38.67124794900005,"lon":-78.45433514393761,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of 21.266 acres at the northern edge of downtown Luray, Page County, Virginia. Its main building is a brick Federal and Greek Revival house built in two phases, ca. 1825 and ca. 1851, and remodeled in the 1920s.","why_significant":"The property is tied to the Ruffner family, whose settlement on the site dates to about 1739 and ranks among the earliest in Page County. The house reflects Federal and Greek Revival design, and the surrounding farm buildings, cemetery and tannery-related springhouse show the property's agricultural and domestic use over time. Tax and deed records link the two building phases to Jonas Ruffner and William A. Chapman.","narrative":"On the northern edge of Luray, Virginia, a 21-acre parcel holds a brick house begun about 1825 for Jonas Ruffner and enlarged about 1851 by William A. Chapman. Flemish bond brickwork, a carved Federal doorway with a fanlight, Greek Revival trim and ornate mantels mark the two building periods, and the house was remodeled in the 1920s. Nearby are a two-story frame residence called The Cottage, a stone springhouse with a brick pumphouse that served an adjacent tannery, an 1890s bank barn, a dairy, several other farm buildings and the small Ruffner Cemetery. The property is significant because the Ruffner family settled here around 1739, among the earliest settlements in what became Page County. Jonas Ruffner also helped found the town of Luray in 1812. The complex records nearly two centuries of family, farm and domestic life, including changes made in the twentieth century by later owners.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current use includes single and multiple dwellings, farm storage and animal facilities, and a cemetery. The swimming pool is out of use because of 1996 flood damage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.84086-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/6824/41682424/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01001515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001515/3d6d9b111f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001515/3d6d9b111f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"self","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruffner_House,_seen_from_the_road.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">self</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruffner_House,_seen_from_the_road.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682424","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15273741"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/page-county/ruffner-house-01001515/"}