{"nrhp_refnum":"76002090","name":"Shack Mountain","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2 mi. NNW of Charlottesville near jct. of VA 657 and 743","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.09287478100006,"lon":-78.50204980567919,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-09-01","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1992-10-05","areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick house in Jeffersonian Classical style on a 100.9-acre wooded ridge about two miles northwest of Charlottesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. Fiske Kimball designed and built it in 1935-36 as his retirement home.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest architectural work of Fiske Kimball, a leading first-generation American architectural scholar, and the most personal expression of his taste. It is a carefully detailed interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's designs, drawing mainly on Farmington and the University of Virginia. It also shows Kimball's belief that regional architectural traditions could stay viable.","narrative":"Shack Mountain is a small brick house set at the end of a narrow ridge northwest of Charlottesville, Virginia. Fiske Kimball, an architectural historian, museum director, educator and preservation figure, designed and built it in 1935-36 as his retirement home. The one-story, T-shaped house has an elongated octagonal front section, a pedimented Tuscan portico with paired columns, Flemish bond brick walls and triple-hung front windows. Its plan and elevation draw chiefly on Jefferson's Farmington, while the parlor adapts a classroom in Pavilion IX at the University of Virginia. Kimball sited the house carefully, cutting views through the trees toward fields, mountains and the Rivanna River. He wanted to show that a local architectural idiom could endure. The Kimballs used the house only at Christmas and for part of each June, and both died in 1955 before moving in. It was listed as a notable work by one of the country's early architectural scholars.","period_of_significance":"1935-36","architect_builder":"Fiske Kimball","architectural_style":"Jeffersonian Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence at the time of the nomination; the form describes the house and grounds as little changed since Kimball's death apart from terraced gardens, a small swimming pool and a garden house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.310349-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/6793/41679301/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002090.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679301","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shack_Mountain","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7460155"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/shack-mountain-76002090/"}