{"nrhp_refnum":"02001375","name":"Wall Brook Farm","other_names":["VDHR file no. 069-0011"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"967 Longs Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Luray","county":"Page County","state":"VA","lat":38.631745281000036,"lon":-78.54531919552882,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm near Luray in Page County, Virginia, centered on a two-story Federal-style brick farmhouse built about 1824, with a ca. 1900 frame addition, a family cemetery, and several farm outbuildings on about 88 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under architecture for the Federal-style brick house, notable for its decorative brickwork, finely made mantels, and a surviving early nineteenth-century painted parlor scheme. The farm also keeps a good set of historic outbuildings and landscape features in a largely agricultural setting, giving it excellent integrity.","narrative":"Wall Brook Farm occupies a strip of about 88 acres in western Page County, Virginia, running from the South Fork of the Shenandoah River to beyond Massanutten Creek. Its centerpiece is a six-bay, center-passage brick farmhouse built about 1824 for John Brubaker on a terrace above the creek. The house is laid in Flemish bond on a limestone foundation and has checkered and lozenge patterns in vitrified headers, molded brick cornices, and round-arched entries with fanlights. Inside are carefully carved Federal mantels, a parlor with painted borders of roses and red swags, and an unusually wide passage said to have hosted worship services. A ca. 1900 frame addition links to a stone structure that served as a kitchen and icehouse and, by a 1936 account, was a slave dwelling. The farm also holds a Brubaker family cemetery, a meathouse and wash house, a bank barn, and mid-twentieth-century dairy buildings. Its surviving interiors, outbuildings, and agricultural setting support its architectural importance from about 1824 to 1952.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1824-1952","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Farm remains in domestic and agricultural use; acreage is used for cattle pasture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.306575-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/6823/41682396/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02001375.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001375/d2344e0d98-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001375/d2344e0d98-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Brook_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Brook_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682396","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Brook_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902863"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/page-county/wall-brook-farm-02001375/"}