{"nrhp_refnum":"14000528","name":"Prices Fork Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Vdhr 060-0224"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Prices Fork Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blacksburg","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.20633793400003,"lon":-80.49296315344057,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2014-08-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small rural village historic district at the east end of Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia, at the intersection of VA Routes 685, 654 and 737. It holds 13 contributing and 2 noncontributing buildings, mostly houses, stores and churches from 1871 to about 1930.","why_significant":"The district is considered significant for architecture, as a group of well preserved buildings showing how a village grew at a fork in a turnpike from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century. Its dense, coherent streetscape and large maple and oak trees tie the sites together. The James Bain Price House and Store of 1871 anchor the district.","narrative":"Prices Fork is a small crossroads village west of Blacksburg, where the old Peppers Ferry Road forks toward Browns Ferry. Its historic core is a tight cluster of frame and brick buildings under large maple, oak and catalpa trees. The oldest and most notable is the brick James Bain Price House of 1871, a Greek Revival farmhouse with a two-story central porch, surrounded by log outbuildings and a barn. Nearby stands Price's well-preserved weatherboarded store of the same year. Other buildings include a ca. 1920 Foursquare house, late nineteenth-century frame dwellings, a ca. 1900 store, and two churches: St. Marks Lutheran, moved here in 1877, and Prices Fork Methodist. The district was recognized for architecture because these buildings show how a country-store village developed along a turnpike from the 1870s into the early twentieth century, and because the buildings and plantings together keep a consistent, intact appearance. Two modern buildings do not contribute.","period_of_significance":"1871-1940","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th c.: Greek Revival; center passage plan; Foursquare","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are well preserved; the Methodist Church is still used by its congregation, the Lutheran church has been converted to apartments, and the ca. 1900 store at 60-224-8 is vacant but not beyond restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.508066-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/6787/41678768/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002004.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/prices-fork-historic-district-boundary-increase-14000528/"}