{"nrhp_refnum":"07001132","name":"Lauderdale","other_names":["VDHE File No. 011-0048"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13508 Lee Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buchanan","county":"Botetourt County","state":"VA","lat":37.489934299000055,"lon":-79.77758737026946,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Lauderdale is a two-story painted brick house with outbuildings on a 12.313-acre parcel along Lee Highway (US 11) near Buchanan in central Botetourt County, Virginia. It was begun about 1821 and altered about 1840 and about 1926.","why_significant":"The house is significant as a substantial early nineteenth-century Federal dwelling later remodeled in the Greek Revival style and expanded with a Colonial Revival portico. It preserves rich interior woodwork, traces of trompe l'oeil wall painting and attic graffiti dating from 1862 to the 1920s. It is also tied to the Bowyer and Johnston families, prominent local landowners and slaveholders who ran farming and milling operations.","narrative":"Lauderdale is a large two-story brick house on the north bank of Looney Mill Creek, just off Lee Highway near Buchanan in Botetourt County. County tax records point to construction around 1821 for Henry Bowyer, a longtime county clerk and Revolutionary War veteran, with a Greek Revival remodeling around 1840 and a rear addition and monumental portico around 1926. The center-passage house keeps varied Federal mantels, carved door and window trim, a scrolled-bracket stair, and traces of painted festoons and rose bouquets beneath later paint in the east parlor. The finished attic holds graffiti dating from 1862 to the 1920s. Later owners, the Johnston family, held dozens of enslaved people and operated a farm, a mill and a blacksmith shop. A brick privy and an early twentieth-century outbuilding stand behind the house, and the surrounding land remains pasture and farmland. A rehabilitation began in 2006.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"A tax credit rehabilitation began in 2006; the house is in use as a single dwelling, with a structural crack at the east end of the front elevation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.722903-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/6798/41679810/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07001132.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001132/e75dc0d882-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001132/e75dc0d882-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LAUDERDALE,_BOTETOURT_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:LAUDERDALE,_BOTETOURT_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679810","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauderdale_(Buchanan,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712689"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/botetourt-county/lauderdale-07001132/"}