{"nrhp_refnum":"05000477","name":"Massanetta Springs Historic District","other_names":["VDHR file no. 082-0509"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"712 Massanetta Springs rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisonburg","county":"Rockingham County","state":"VA","lat":38.403220983500034,"lon":-78.8392100388161,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly seventy-acre historic district on Massanetta Springs Road, southeast of Harrisonburg in Rockingham County, Virginia. It includes a 1910 hotel, a springhouse, a tabernacle-style auditorium in a wooded grove, and a 1955-56 camp complex.","why_significant":"The district traces a former mineral springs resort that became a Presbyterian Bible conference center and camp. The form documents the 1910 hotel built by banker James Robert Lupton, the 1919 sale to Hampden-Sydney College, and later church use. Its buildings and landscape features show the change from resort to religious retreat and camp. The excerpt does not include the full statement of criteria or areas of significance.","narrative":"Massanetta Springs is a district of about seventy acres along Massanetta Springs Road and Congers Creek, southeast of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Its centerpiece is a large four-story hotel of 1910, with a mansard-roofed center block and Queen Anne-style brick wings, built by banker James Robert Lupton after he bought the springs in 1909. Nearby are a stone-pillared springhouse and a wooded grove holding the Hudson Memorial Auditorium, an open-air tabernacle begun in 1922, along with a cobblestone Rustic pavilion and a small chapel. On a ridge to the west stands Camp Massanetta, more than two dozen small lodges, bathhouses and cabins erected in 1955-56. The place began as a mineral water resort, with bottled spring water marketed nationwide in the 1880s. After Hampden-Sydney College bought it in 1919, it passed to Presbyterian ownership as a Bible conference center, an association that continues today. Thirty-five resources contribute to the district and ten do not.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Empire, Queen Anne, Late Gothic Revival, Rustic, Modern Movement","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a hotel, camp, religious facility and sports facility. The form notes increasing water damage in the upper floors of the Hotel.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.941176-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6835/41683525/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000477.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000477/b03f38c4cb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000477/b03f38c4cb-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massanetta_Springs_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massanetta_Springs_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683525","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massanetta_Springs_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6784521"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockingham-county/massanetta-springs-historic-district-05000477/"}