{"nrhp_refnum":"71000989","name":"Tunker House","other_names":["Yount-Zigler House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Broadway at jct. of VA 786 and 42","address_restricted":false,"city":"Broadway","county":"Rockingham County","state":"VA","lat":38.604255307000074,"lon":-78.79830126699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-07-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Flemish bond brick house with a brick and frame rear ell on a stone foundation, near Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia. The original section was built circa 1798 by Benjamin Yount, with the main block added between 1802 and 1806.","why_significant":"The house served as a meeting place for the German Baptists (Tunkers or Brethren) from the early nineteenth century until 1830, using partitions that could be raised to form one large room. Peter Nead, an important early Church of the Brethren leader, lived here and wrote Primitive Christianity in 1833. It is described as the only surviving Brethren meeting place in the Shenandoah Valley.","narrative":"Near Broadway in Rockingham County, Virginia, the Tunker House grew from a one-story Flemish bond brick dwelling built around 1798 by Benjamin Yount. Between 1802 and 1806 Yount added a two-story brick block at right angles to it, and the older section was later raised to two stories and widened with a frame addition. The most notable feature is a pair of large pine partitions on the first floor that could be swung up to the ceiling, turning two front rooms into a single meeting hall. From the early 1800s until 1830, German Baptists, known as Tunkers or Brethren, worshipped here, which gave the house its name. Peter Nead, who married Yount's daughter and inherited the house in 1834, lived here and wrote Primitive Christianity in 1833, the first printed English-language theology for the Brethren. The house is described as the only surviving Brethren meeting place in the Shenandoah Valley.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates circa 1798, 1802-06)","architect_builder":"Benjamin Yount (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; unoccupied at the time of nomination and being renovated by its owner.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.312405-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6835/41683523/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/71000989.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000989/cdf18a87ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000989/cdf18a87ed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kevin M. Byrne","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunker_House,_Broadway_VA_2014-09-13.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin M. Byrne</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:Tunker_House,_Broadway_VA_2014-09-13.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902071"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockingham-county/tunker-house-71000989/"}