{"nrhp_refnum":"02001371","name":"Old Turner Place","other_names":["King's Grant One","44-105"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7643 Henry Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Henry","county":"Henry County","state":"VA","lat":36.831951056000065,"lon":-80.44695190083738,"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 one-and-a-half-story log farmhouse with a log smokehouse, on Larkin's Branch just west of the village of Henry in Henry County, Virginia, dating to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. The form gives a possible construction window of 1783 to 1804.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance in architecture for representing early log farmhouse and outbuilding construction in the region. The house is a fine example of the log hall-parlor plan once common in southwestern Virginia, and it is described as a rare survivor of early American folk housing. It has stayed in the Turner family's hands to the present.","narrative":"Old Turner Place is a log farmhouse and smokehouse on Larkin's Branch, just west of the village of Henry in Henry County, Virginia. The one-and-a-half-story house is built of dovetailed white oak logs on a mortared sandstone foundation, with large sandstone chimneys at each end and a two-room hall-parlor plan. Its interior finishes appear to date to a mid-nineteenth-century upgrade. A single-pen pine log smokehouse stands to the northwest. Three later buildings do not contribute: a moved 1920s corn crib, a late-1960s storage shed and a mobile home. The exact construction date is uncertain, with family accounts pointing to the 1780s or 1804. The property was listed for its architecture, as a rare surviving example of the log hall-parlor farmhouse once common in southwestern Virginia. Generations of the Turner family lived and farmed here, and the farm was affected by raids at the close of the Civil War in 1865. It remains a private residence.","period_of_significance":"c. 1790-1870","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a private residence; two of five buildings are contributing, and many early dependencies have been demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.459717-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/6812/41681271/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02001371.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001371/5f59abe8bf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001371/5f59abe8bf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Turner_Place.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Turner_Place.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681271","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turner_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713024"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/henry-county/old-turner-place-02001371/"}