{"nrhp_refnum":"11000606","name":"Tanner, O.H.P., House","other_names":["Old Courthouse","DHR #58-5108 &amp","58-0048 (former site)"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3199 Old St. Tammany Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaCrosse","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"VA","lat":36.616082652000046,"lon":-78.13553402199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story, 28-foot-square, gambrel-roofed frame Georgian house near LaCrosse in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, built ca. 1769 and locally known as the Old Courthouse. It was moved 1.8 miles south of its original site and rehabilitated in 2006-2009.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare late-18th and early-19th-century double-pile, gambrel-roofed dwelling in Mecklenburg County, with higher integrity than the two other surviving gambrel-roofed houses of the period. It retains original construction techniques such as brick nogging and pit-sawn and hewn timbers, plus ca. 1820 woodwork with painted graining and marbleizing.","narrative":"Built around 1769 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, this small gambrel-roofed frame house is known locally as the Old Courthouse because John Brown, county court clerk, reportedly lived and worked there until 1781. Dendrochronology dated the timbers to 1769 and the roof rafters to 1818, matching a major remodeling around 1820 that added the gambrel roof and interior woodwork. That woodwork includes faux-paneled wainscot, grained doors and mantels, and marbleized baseboards. A rear kitchen wing followed about 1923. After decades of abandonment, the house was bought in 2006, moved 1.8 miles south because road-access rules could not be met at the original site, and rehabilitated by 2009. Its fieldstone foundations and chimneys were rebuilt with the original numbered stones. The house was listed for its architecture, as a rare surviving double-pile gambrel-roofed dwelling in the county with exceptional original fabric, including doors, hinges, windows, plaster and pine floors.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1769-ca. 1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian; Other/Vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated 2006-2009 after decades of vacancy and abandonment; moved to a new site to meet county road access requirements; currently a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.467384-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/6819/41681914/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/11000606.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000606/0f6a7a9e2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000606/0f6a7a9e2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O._H._P._TANNER_HOUSE,_MECKLENBURG_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O._H._P._TANNER_HOUSE,_MECKLENBURG_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681914","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.H.P._Tanner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/mecklenburg-county/tanner-o-h-p-house-11000606/"}