{"nrhp_refnum":"06000342","name":"Auburn","other_names":["171-0008","171-5001-0177"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"320 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bowling Green","county":"Caroline County","state":"VA","lat":38.059374608500065,"lon":-77.35546782091431,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame, two-story Greek Revival dwelling built circa 1843 on the northern edge of Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, with later additions and two outbuildings, set on about seventeen acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house meets Criterion C as a locally significant example of vernacular building traditions, principally in the Greek Revival style. It incorporates changing popular styles through successive historic additions while keeping its side-passage plan, character-defining features and rural setting.","narrative":"Auburn is a frame Greek Revival house on the northern edge of Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia. Built around 1843 for Robert Hudgin, Clerk of the Circuit Court, it began as a two-story, three-bay, single-pile house with a side-passage plan on a raised brick basement, topped with a low-pitched hipped metal roof. Later owners enlarged it with a late-nineteenth-century rear ell, an early-twentieth-century kitchen and bathroom wing, a circa 1930 sunroom with a Colonial Revival porte-cochere, and a circa 1940 Craftsman-style rear porch. These additions use similar materials, colors and rooflines, so the house keeps its overall character. A circa 1940 concrete block shed also contributes to the property. The house was recognized for its local architectural significance as an example of vernacular building that blends Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival influences. A tree-lined drive, open fields and remnants of outbuildings preserve its rural setting on roughly seventeen remaining acres.","period_of_significance":"1843-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th century Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; most rooms retain their historic function, and a contributing circa 1940 shed and a non-contributing mid-twentieth-century garage stand to the west.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.352277-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/6799/41679949/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000342.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000342/8a8e2e4e37-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000342/8a8e2e4e37-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Mojo Hand","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auburn_house,_Caroline_County_VA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mojo Hand</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:Auburn_house,_Caroline_County_VA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679949","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_(Bowling_Green,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/caroline-county/auburn-06000342/"}