{"nrhp_refnum":"08000200","name":"Edgewood","other_names":["Massie House","Boulder Springs","005-0158"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"591 Puppy Cr. Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amherst","county":"Amherst County","state":"VA","lat":37.63983912900005,"lon":-79.1499818314571,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-03-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Edgewood (Massie House) is a two-story Greek Revival brick farmhouse at 591 Puppy Creek Road, Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It sits on Boulder Springs, a working farm of about 1,030 acres, and was built by Joseph Hardin Massie between 1858 and 1868.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine example of Greek Revival architecture, with a T-shaped plan, handmade on-site bricks and original interior detailing. It was one of the first houses completed in the county after the Civil War. Together with the surrounding farm buildings, sites and cemetery, it shows how several generations of the Massie family lived and farmed from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.","narrative":"Edgewood is a two-story Greek Revival brick house on Boulder Springs, a working farm of about 1,030 acres in central Amherst County, Virginia. Joseph Hardin Massie began the house in 1858 and finished it in 1868, replacing his father's frame house, Upper Place, which burned. Handmade bricks fired on site form the walls, and the south front is laid in a finer pattern of stretcher courses with Flemish bond courses. The T-shaped house has a copper gable roof, three chimneys, a central hall with an original quarter-turn stair, and simple Greek Revival mantels. Changes between 1900 and 1927 added porches, a bathroom, electricity and a new front porch. The farm also holds a c. 1920 bank barn, a corncrib, a c. 1800 log house, a family cemetery and the ruins of earlier buildings. It was listed for its architecture and for showing six generations of Massie farming life. The farm was named a Master Farm Family of Virginia in 1949.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800 - 1927","architect_builder":"Massie, Joseph Hardin (1828-1915)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a private residence and working farm, occupied by the sixth generation of the Massie family. The farm buildings and ruins are maintained and preserved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.915297-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6795/41679529/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000200.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000200/bbf593f8ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000200/bbf593f8ba-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgewood_farmhouse_on_Puppy_Creek_Road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgewood_farmhouse_on_Puppy_Creek_Road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679529","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood,_1858_(Amherst,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337856"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/amherst-county/edgewood-08000200/"}