{"nrhp_refnum":"05000528","name":"Long Meadow","other_names":["Cyrus Rhodes House","DHR File No. 082-0111"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2525 Fridleys Gap Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisonburg","county":"Rockingham County","state":"VA","lat":38.514236192000055,"lon":-78.74050122724567,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Long Meadow, also known as the Cyrus Rhodes House, is a farm with a two-story Greek Revival brick house built circa 1845, a frame bank barn and a family cemetery on about 41 acres near Harrisonburg in northern Rockingham County, Virginia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding example of Greek Revival architecture in rural Rockingham County. It kept its original form and has unusual interior woodwork and finishes. It also shows the life of a prosperous mid-nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley grain farmer, Cyrus Rhodes.","narrative":"Long Meadow is a farm in northern Rockingham County, Virginia, set in a meadow in the foothills at the southern end of the Massanutten Mountains. Its centerpiece is a three-bay, two-story brick house with an English basement, built around 1845 for farmer Cyrus Rhodes. The house is laid in five-course American bond and has a modillion brick cornice, paired four-over-four windows, and a front porch with fluted square columns. Inside, a central passage plan holds finely crafted woodwork, including faux oak graining, marbleizing and stenciled ceiling decoration. The property also includes a timber-frame bank barn built about 1866 to replace one burned during the 1864 Great Burning of the Shenandoah Valley, and a family graveyard with fifteen graves. Rhodes grew wheat and rye and once owned about 1,000 acres. The property was recognized for its Greek Revival architecture, its well-preserved original character, and its picture of a prosperous valley farmer's life.","period_of_significance":"circa 1845 - circa 1866","architect_builder":"Cyrus Rhodes","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with the barn, corncrib and cemetery also still in their historic functions; the house is described as retaining its original form with no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.582611-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/6834/41683463/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000528.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000528/d0ac6873dc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000528/d0ac6873dc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Meadow_on_Fridleys_Gap_Road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_Meadow_on_Fridleys_Gap_Road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683463","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Meadow_(Harrisonburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15242777"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockingham-county/long-meadow-05000528/"}