{"nrhp_refnum":"05001623","name":"Harper House","other_names":["007-0233"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3029 Stuarts Draft Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stuarts Draft","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.04014705000003,"lon":-79.01925785499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate brick farmhouse built about 1888 just north of Stuarts Draft in Augusta County, Virginia, with five other contributing resources: a meathouse, workshop, garage, windmill support and granary.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well preserved and finely finished Italianate dwelling with notable features, including an ornate sawn-wood front porch, Greek Revival mantels and a star-carved stair newel. It also survives with most of its historic domestic outbuilding complex and a large granary. Later owner George Harper, an educational reformer in Augusta County, is mentioned in the narrative, but significance rests on architecture (Criterion C) at the local level.","narrative":"Located just north of Stuarts Draft in Augusta County, Virginia, this two-story brick farmhouse was built about 1888, probably for farmer John J. Harper and his family. Its hip roof has a bracketed cornice, and the front porch carries sawn and pierced woodwork that appears modeled on cast iron details of the period. Inside, a center-passage plan includes six late Greek Revival mantels and a walnut stair newel capped with a carved five-pointed star. Behind the house stand a large meathouse, a workshop that may also have served as a summer kitchen and laundry, a garage, a windmill support and a big mortise-and-tenon granary, the main survivor of the former farm complex. Surrounded by farmland with views of the Blue Ridge, the property was recognized for its well preserved Italianate architecture and its largely intact collection of domestic outbuildings. Earlier state surveyors praised the combination of a handsome house with varied outbuildings.","period_of_significance":"Circa 1870 - 1940","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Outbuildings are no longer in use and show varying deterioration; the granary is in poor condition though its core structure appears sound. The house retains good overall integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.529228-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/6796/41679653/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001623.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001623/0d976c7356-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001623/0d976c7356-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HARPER_HSE,_STUARTS_DRAFT,_AUGUSTA_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HARPER_HSE,_STUARTS_DRAFT,_AUGUSTA_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679653","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_House_(Stuarts_Draft,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712490"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/harper-house-05001623/"}