{"nrhp_refnum":"73002054","name":"Lone Oaks","other_names":["Winsmere","Deyerle,Benjamin,Place"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3402 Grandin Road Extension SW.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.248907263000035,"lon":-80.00459439699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Lone Oaks (also called the Benjamin Deyerle Place or Winsmere) is a brick Classical Revival house on Grandin Road Extension near Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, built around 1852 by builder Benjamin Deyerle for his own family.","why_significant":"The house is presented as the most handsome and finely crafted work of Benjamin Deyerle, the leading Roanoke County builder of the mid-nineteenth century. His houses and churches form the backbone of the Classical Revival style in the Roanoke area and are considered by some to be the finest structures in the Roanoke Valley.","narrative":"Lone Oaks is a sturdy brick house near Roanoke built around 1852 by Benjamin Deyerle (1806-1883) as a home for his family. Deyerle, orphaned young and with little formal schooling, became the most important contractor and builder in the Roanoke County area, as well as a farmer, mill and distillery operator and storekeeper. The house shows his Classical Revival approach: a three-bay entrance facade, a pedimented Doric portico with fluted columns, large corner pilasters, a heavy cornice beneath a low hipped roof, and a curving stair in the central hall. Later changes include a horseshoe-shaped entrance stair and a frame addition. Surviving outbuildings include slave quarters, a store building, a kiln and a springhouse built over a small stream. The nomination calls Lone Oaks the most handsome and finely crafted of Deyerle's buildings, which helped define the Classical Revival style in the Roanoke Valley.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (c. 1852)","architect_builder":"Benjamin Deyerle","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as an occupied private residence in fair condition and altered, with twentieth-century additions; several outbuildings survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.799754-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/6832/41683249/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002054/0a5ac80f55-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002054/0a5ac80f55-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Patriarca12","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lone_Oaks_in_Roanoke,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriarca12</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:Lone_Oaks_in_Roanoke,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683249","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Oaks","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6671327"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/lone-oaks-73002054/"}