{"nrhp_refnum":"08001052","name":"Rowe House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"801 Hanover St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fredericksburg","county":"Fredericksburg","state":"VA","lat":38.300500244000034,"lon":-77.46588792699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, four-bay brick Federal-style dwelling with an English basement at 801 Hanover Street on the edge of Fredericksburg's historic core, built in 1828 for butcher and tanner George Rowe, with a later garden storage building.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a notable and well-preserved example of Federal-style design with Greek Revival-inspired interior moldings, and it illustrates the career of George Rowe, a successful butcher, tanner, and landholder. Its form reflects the original siting on the turnpike for his slaughtering business, and it retains documented features such as columns reused from St. George's Church. The form's stated criteria are not legible in the text provided.","narrative":"Built in 1828 on Hanover Street at the edge of Fredericksburg's historic core, this brick house is a two-story, four-bay, double-pile dwelling with a side-passage plan, a raised English basement, a molded brick cornice, and a deep gable roof. A two-story porch spans the south front; it may be original or rebuilt around 1848 using columns from the old St. George's Church. Additions followed: a brick wing around 1850, a frame north room in the late nineteenth century, and an early twentieth-century northeast extension. Inside, Federal-style mantels and varied molding profiles inspired by Greek Revival pattern books survive, along with mid-twentieth-century changes. George Rowe, a butcher and tanner, bought the land in 1827 and built the house for his business and family, using the turnpike location for livestock and the nearby town for markets. A garden storage building of about 1950, designed to resemble a smokehouse, also contributes to the property.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current use is single dwelling with a secondary structure; the main house has structural cracking and water damage on the north wall and in the basement.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.480303-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6808/41680835/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08001052.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001052/4cc79df83a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001052/4cc79df83a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"GeorgeBarnick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowe_House_Fredericksburg_Virginia_September_2014.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">GeorgeBarnick</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowe_House_Fredericksburg_Virginia_September_2014.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowe_House_(Fredericksburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15273430"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fredericksburg/rowe-house-08001052/"}