{"nrhp_refnum":"74002146","name":"Monterey","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Tinker Creek Lane, NE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.30831776900007,"lon":-79.9134013717306,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Monterey is a brick Greek Revival house on Tinker Creek Lane NE in the Roanoke vicinity, Roanoke County, Virginia, built in the 1840s for Yelverton Neal Oliver on a knoll above Tinker Creek.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Monterey as an unusual ante-bellum house whose low single-story profile, hipped roof with front veranda and spacious proportions resemble early Gulf Coast houses more than typical western Virginia ones. It also shows how Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter could shape a modest, practical dwelling. It is one of few ante-bellum plantation houses in heavily urbanized Roanoke County to keep a rural setting.","narrative":"Monterey is a brick house built in the 1840s for Yelverton Neal Oliver, set on a knoll above Tinker Creek near Roanoke with views of the surrounding mountains. From the front it looks like a single-story building, but the sloping land makes it two levels at the rear. A raised veranda with square columns runs across the facade beneath a low hipped roof, a form more common in Gulf Coast houses than in western Virginia. Oliver traveled to New Orleans and may have taken the idea from there. The Greek Revival detail, including the main doorway frontispiece and interior door designs, was adapted from plates in Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter of 1830. The walls are handmade brick, with Flemish bond on the facade, and the cornice is Greek Doric. After Oliver's death around 1864 the Read family owned the property until 1968. It remains one of few ante-bellum plantation houses in Roanoke County with a rural setting.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is stated as excellent and unaltered on its original site; the house has always been in use and is a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.004214-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/6832/41683265/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002146/27724bf216-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002146/27724bf216-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MONTEREY,_ROANOKE_CITY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MONTEREY,_ROANOKE_CITY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683265","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_(Roanoke,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895339"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/monterey-74002146/"}