{"nrhp_refnum":"02001364","name":"Bare House and Mill","other_names":["07-0834"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"157 Wilda Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stuarts Draft","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.02305846400006,"lon":-79.09518964998252,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm property on the South River near Stuarts Draft, Augusta County, Virginia, with a ca. 1857 two-story brick house and the ruin of a limestone mill traditionally dated to 1795, plus several outbuildings and a mill race.","why_significant":"The property is significant for architecture. The house is a vernacular blend of Greek Revival and Italianate styles with unusual features, such as a center passage divided by one operable and one fixed louvered door. The mill ruin preserves evidence of an unusual interior undershot wheel, possibly tied to specialized milling operations and site constraints.","narrative":"Beside the South River in southeast Augusta County, Virginia, this farm holds a brick house and the ruins of a limestone gristmill. Jacob Bare is credited with building the two-story mill, traditionally dated to 1795, and an inscription shows it stood by 1825. His son John Bare built the two-story brick house around 1857. It combines Greek Revival and Italianate elements, including a bracketed cornice, a front entry with sidelights and transom, and a center passage divided by paired louvered doors. The mill's surviving walls, arched openings and dry head race suggest an undershot wheel housed inside the building, an unusual arrangement. Outbuildings include a wellhouse and meat house, a small barn, a privy, a cistern and a pumphouse. In the twentieth century the mill served as a barn, and a storm in the 1960s began its decline. Recent stabilization has slowed deterioration. The property was listed for its architecture at the local level.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1800-1952","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is used as a second home by the owners. The mill is a ruin that has been partly stabilized. The form lists current function as vacant/not in use in addition to dwelling.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.475835-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/6796/41679651/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02001364.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001364/4ab07b6f6c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001364/4ab07b6f6c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Philip N. Wheeler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bare%27s_Mill,_4x6,_300ppi.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip N. Wheeler</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:Bare%27s_Mill,_4x6,_300ppi.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679651","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_House_and_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711998"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/bare-house-and-mill-02001364/"}