{"nrhp_refnum":"73002067","name":"\"June Tolliver\" House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"On VA 613","address_restricted":false,"city":"Big Stone Gap","county":"Wise County","state":"VA","lat":36.86743248200003,"lon":-82.77278004999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-08-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story brick Queen Anne style house near the Powell River in Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia, built in 1890.","why_significant":"The house is typical of the Queen Anne houses built in Southwest Virginia small towns during the late nineteenth-century boom. It is also recognized as the house where June Morris, the prototype of June Tolliver in John Fox, Jr.'s novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, boarded while attending school. It is regarded locally as the town's premier landmark.","narrative":"Built in 1890 near the Powell River in Big Stone Gap, this two-and-a-half story brick house is a representative Queen Anne dwelling of the kind that appeared in Southwest Virginia towns during the late nineteenth-century boom. It has a three-bay facade with projecting end bays, pedimented shingled gables, double front doors with large glass panes, and a center-hall, double-pile interior with an open-string stair. The parlor mantel holds a shelf of local coal, and the rest of the mantel is painted to imitate it. The house is also tied to literature. June Morris, the prototype of June Tolliver in John Fox, Jr.'s 1908 novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, boarded here while attending school. The parlor and one bedroom are restored to match those described in the book. Furnished with period pieces from the 1890s, the house is open to the public as a museum, and an outdoor drama based on the novel is performed in a playhouse next door.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and in good condition; furnished with 1890s artifacts and furniture, and open to the public as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.145392-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/6841/41684198/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002067.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002067/c9a1255762-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002067/c9a1255762-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Betcantrell","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:June_Tolliver_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Betcantrell</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:June_Tolliver_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684198","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Tolliver_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15229860"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/wise-county/june-tolliver-house-73002067/"}