{"nrhp_refnum":"04001275","name":"Boxley-Sprinkle House","other_names":["Vdhr # 128-5978"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2611 Crystal Spring Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.244788612000036,"lon":-79.95030500699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house on a 1.15-acre corner lot at 2611 Crystal Spring Avenue in the South Roanoke neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia, built around 1907 by railroad contractor Robert F. Boxley and redesigned in the Colonial Revival style in the 1940s.","why_significant":"The house is an unusual example of one of the earliest houses in South Roanoke, originally built in the Victorian style and later remodeled in the Colonial Revival style with a full-height classical portico. It is significant locally under Criterion C in architecture. It reflects both the development of the South Roanoke neighborhood and the changing architectural tastes of the period.","narrative":"Standing on a prominent corner lot in South Roanoke, this two-story brick house began around 1907 as a Victorian dwelling with a corner turret, polygonal bays and a wraparound porch. Robert F. Boxley, a railroad contractor who came to Roanoke in the early 1900s, is assumed to have built it himself, since no architect has been identified. After his death in 1919, the house passed to the Sprinkle family. Building permits from 1939 and 1948 point to remodeling, and the house was reoriented to face Crystal Spring Avenue and given a full-height portico with paired Tuscan columns, in keeping with Colonial Revival fashion. Elements of the original design survive on the 26th Street side, including diamond-patterned transom and sidelights and the wraparound porch. The 1.15-acre lot also holds a 1988 garage and a tennis court dating to about 1960. The house is recognized for its architecture and for what it shows about South Roanoke's growth and changing tastes between 1907 and 1954.","period_of_significance":"1907-1954","architect_builder":"Robert F. Boxley","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revival (Colonial Revival, with remnants of earlier Victorian design)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a single dwelling, with a non-contributing garage and tennis court on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.527715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/6832/41683281/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04001275.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001275/25c91414f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001275/25c91414f9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Patriarca12","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boxley-Sprinkle_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriarca12</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:Boxley-Sprinkle_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683281","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxley%E2%80%93Sprinkle_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16845403"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/boxley-sprinkle-house-04001275/"}