{"nrhp_refnum":"04000051","name":"Gray, Harry W., House","other_names":["000-0515"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1005 S. Quinn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Arlington County","state":"VA","lat":38.864941963000035,"lon":-77.07460427099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate brick rowhouse-style dwelling at 1005 South Quinn Street in the Arlington View (Johnson's Hill) neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, built in 1881 by Harry W. Gray, a former slave at Arlington House.","why_significant":"It is recognized under Criterion A for its association with African American settlement and the rise from slavery to middle-class citizenship after the Civil War. Under Criterion C, it is a rare freestanding masonry rowhouse, described as the only surviving documented example of this building type in Arlington County, built by an amateur builder using skills learned at Arlington House and local brickyards.","narrative":"Built in 1881 at 1005 South Quinn Street in Arlington, Virginia, this two-story brick house reflects the Italianate style, with a decorative bracketed entablature, a full-width front porch, and a freestanding rowhouse form unusual for rural Arlington at the time. Harry W. Gray, born into slavery at Arlington House, built it himself using masonry skills learned there and in local brickyards, along with architectural ideas he saw while working in Washington, D.C. Gray and his wife bought a nine-acre tract in Johnson's Hill, south of Freedman's Village. The house is valued as an example of the move from slavery to middle-class life after the Civil War and for its rarity as the only documented surviving example of its type in the county. It remained in the Gray family until 1979 and keeps its original side-hall plan and brick construction, with a small rear porch enclosed around 1960.","period_of_significance":"1881-1913","architect_builder":"GRAY, HARRY W.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition with little exterior alteration since construction; still used as a single dwelling. Interior renovated circa 1979.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.260058-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/6796/41679610/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000051.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000051/69ff59dcb1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000051/69ff59dcb1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Slowking4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harry-gray-house026.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Slowking4</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:Harry-gray-house026.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679610","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_W._Gray_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712503"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/arlington-county/gray-harry-w-house-04000051/"}