{"nrhp_refnum":"04000105","name":"Cobble Hill Farm","other_names":["DHR File No.132-5013"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 Woodlee Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Staunton","county":"Staunton","state":"VA","lat":38.177594340500065,"lon":-79.06475989642882,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 196-acre working farm in the City of Staunton, Virginia, made up of an owner's residence with gardens and outbuildings plus two tenant farms. The main house was designed in 1936 and built in 1937 on land with late-nineteenth-century farm buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant for agriculture, as a well-preserved complex of late-19th to early-20th-century farm buildings still actively farmed and assembled to resist subdivision. It is also significant for architecture, as a rare Tudor Revival/French Eclectic manor house in rusticated concrete block by Staunton architect Sam Collins, plus his first barn design.","narrative":"Cobble Hill Farm is a 196-acre agricultural property in Staunton, Virginia, combining an owner's residence, formal gardens, farm outbuildings and two tenant farms. The main house, designed in 1936 by Sam Collins of T.J. Collins and Son and completed in 1937, is a two-and-a-half-story Tudor Revival and French Eclectic dwelling of rusticated concrete block, with a steep shingled roof, half-timbered gables and a stone chimney. Collins also designed a summerhouse, a cistern tower and a gambrel-roofed barn, his first barn. Late-nineteenth-century dairy and feed barns remain near the house. The land was assembled from three parcels in the early-to-mid twentieth century by Harriet Echols Ewing Hanger to keep it farmable and protect it from subdivision. It is one of only four farms of 50 to 500 acres in the city still actively farmed, and the house has changed very little since it was built. Sheep and hay remain the main products today.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1874 1954","architect_builder":"Sam Collins, T.J. Collins and Sons, Architects","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th century revivals: Tudor Revival; Other: French Eclectic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still an active farm raising sheep and growing hay; the house is described as remarkably original and remains in use as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.886271-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/6837/41683775/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000105.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000105/7689ff19ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000105/7689ff19ed-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cobble_Hill_Farm_barn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cobble_Hill_Farm_barn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683775","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobble_Hill_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16890472"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/staunton/cobble-hill-farm-04000105/"}