{"nrhp_refnum":"10000562","name":"Maple Front Farm","other_names":["Locust Front Farm","W.K. Clemmer Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"439 Cale Spring Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middlebrook","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.061150816000065,"lon":-79.24086034099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead of about seven acres on Cale Springs Road south of Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia, centered on a ca. 1900 Late Victorian frame I-house with seven contributing outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a well-preserved, locally significant example of an Augusta County farmstead under Criterion C. The house retains original decorative woodwork and grain-painted interior finishes that may be the work of itinerant painter Green Berry Jones. Its large group of domestic-yard and agricultural outbuildings, including a gas-generating house, shows the work patterns of rural households in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Maple Front Farm is a seven-acre farmstead south of the village of Middlebrook in Augusta County, Virginia. Built around 1900, its main house is a three-bay, two-story Late Victorian frame I-house with German siding, fishscale-shingled gables, scroll-sawn bargeboards and a spindlework front porch. Inside, pine woodwork was painted in contrasting colors to imitate oak, walnut and figured exotic woods, a decorative scheme in the style of itinerant painter Green Berry Jones, though no attribution can be made. The property once formed part of a 185-acre diversified farm assembled by the Clemmer family, growing apples and grain and raising cattle. Seven contributing outbuildings survive, including a washhouse, meat house, wood house, garage, granary, gas house and a windmill converted to a bell tower. Together they illustrate the daily work of a rural household and farm. The house and outbuildings have kept their exterior and interior integrity for over a century, which supports the property's local architectural importance.","period_of_significance":"circa 1900","architect_builder":"Unknown; owner at the time the buildings were built was John L. Clemmer","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (three-bay frame I-house)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Retains its rural setting and is in use as a single dwelling, with some site rental; the granary shows rotting sills and moisture damage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.207577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/6796/41679657/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000562.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000562/8552405cfc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000562/8552405cfc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maple_Front_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maple_Front_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679657","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Front_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712779"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/maple-front-farm-10000562/"}