{"nrhp_refnum":"09000666","name":"Anderson-Doosing Farm","other_names":["VDHR Flie No. 080-0009"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"7474 VA 785","address_restricted":false,"city":"Catawba","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.330573681500056,"lon":-80.19507088944435,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farm district of about 25 acres on Blacksburg Road (State Route 785) in the Catawba Valley of northern Roanoke County, Virginia, centered on a ca. 1883 Greek Revival frame farmhouse and a ca. 1830 log bank barn, with other farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm retains a largely intact set of domestic and agricultural buildings spanning from about 1830 to the mid-twentieth century, including a double-crib log barn, log cabin, meat house and blacksmith shop. It shows how a Catawba Valley farm evolved under the Anderson, Doosing and McNeil families. The nomination treats it as locally significant.","narrative":"Set in the Catawba Valley of northern Roanoke County, this roughly 25-acre farm preserves the core of a once larger agricultural holding along the headwaters of Catawba Creek. The most prominent building is a two-story Greek Revival frame house built about 1883 for John and Barbara Ellen Doosing, with limestone chimneys, a symmetrical three-bay front and graining on interior doors. Lower on the property stands a double-crib log bank barn from about 1830, later enlarged with sheds and a straw shed. Other resources include a log cabin later used as a blacksmith shop, a log meat house with a reused door carved 1864, a corncrib, chicken houses, a 1940s cinder block milking parlor and a prehistoric archaeological site. The farm passed from the Andersons to Jacob Doosing in 1845, then to his nephew John W. Doosing, and in 1916 to the McNeil family, who ran a small blacksmith shop. Together the buildings document farm life from the early nineteenth century into the twentieth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions include single dwelling, secondary structure, agricultural storage and work in progress; some outbuildings show settling, leaning and deterioration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.369283-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/6832/41683253/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000666.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000666/469fa601af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000666/469fa601af-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson-Doosing_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson-Doosing_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683253","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%E2%80%93Doosing_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15181014"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/anderson-doosing-farm-09000666/"}