{"nrhp_refnum":"05001586","name":"Langhorne House","other_names":["Gwynn Apartments","VDHR file no. 108-0064"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"117 Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danville (Independent City)","county":"Danville","state":"VA","lat":36.58008310800005,"lon":-79.40320842799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame dwelling at 117 Broad Street in downtown Danville, Virginia, built ca. 1874 with a second story added ca. 1878. It was moved, enlarged and converted to apartments in 1921.","why_significant":"The house is the birthplace of Lady Nancy Langhorne Astor, the first woman to sit in the British Parliament. It is significant under Criterion A for her celebrated homecoming visit in 1922, when she addressed a crowd of 5,000 from its porch. The visit was widely reported and still evokes civic pride in Danville.","narrative":"Built around 1874 for Nancy and Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, this Danville house at 117 Broad Street began as a one-story dwelling and gained a second story with an Italianate bracketed cornice about 1878. Nancy Langhorne, later Lady Astor and the first woman to sit in the British Parliament, was born in its first-floor southwest room in 1879. In 1921 the house was moved back from its original site, enlarged, given a two-tier Classical Revival porch and converted to apartments. On May 5, 1922, Lady Astor spoke to about 5,000 people from that porch during a tour promoting women's causes and Anglo-American friendship. Newspapers across the country covered the visit, and it remains a point of civic pride. The Lady Astor Preservation Trust bought the property in 1988 and restored it in 1990 to its 1922 appearance. The first floor now interprets the lives of Astor and her sister Irene Langhorne Gibson, while two upstairs apartments remain.","period_of_significance":"1922","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate; Classical Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Restored in 1990 to its 1922 appearance; the first floor is a museum interpreting Astor and Irene Langhorne Gibson, and two upstairs apartments were retained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.269076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6803/41680389/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001586.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001586/9c908db984-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001586/9c908db984-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"MarmadukePercy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langhorne_House_Danville_Virginia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">MarmadukePercy</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:Langhorne_House_Danville_Virginia.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73002207","name":"Danville Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/danville-historic-district-additional-documentation-73002207/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680389","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langhorne_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15241536"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/danville/langhorne-house-05001586/"}