{"nrhp_refnum":"76002117","name":"Massanutton Heights","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Luray on U.S. 211","address_restricted":false,"city":"Luray","county":"Page County","state":"VA","lat":38.63763993900005,"lon":-78.56866480717903,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, four-bay Flemish bond brick farmhouse on a knoll west of Luray in Page County, Virginia, built around 1820 by John R. Burner, with a 144-acre farmstead and outbuildings.","why_significant":"It is described as an essentially undisturbed example of a prosperous early nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley farmstead. The first-floor parlor has rare early painted wall decoration, a surviving example of popular art of the period. Together with the bold provincial woodwork, family artifacts and farm buildings, it shows the material culture of German-American settlers in the Valley.","narrative":"Massanutton Heights is a brick farmhouse on a knoll near Luray, overlooking Massanutton Old Fields, one of the earliest settled areas of Page County. John R. Burner and his wife Elizabeth Strickler probably built it around 1820, and Burner received a tavern license in 1831. The two-story house is laid in Flemish bond and has a three-room, single-pile plan. Its central parlor carries early painted decoration: imitation wainscoting, a border of flowers and vines, and red swag draperies with gold fringe and tassels, imitating the border papers of fine Federal houses. The Burner family took boarders from the 1920s to the 1940s and added a frame ell in 1924. Surviving outbuildings include a tenant house, wash house, wagon shed and a gambrel-roofed bank barn. The 144-acre farm is valued as a nearly undisturbed Shenandoah Valley farmstead that shows how German-American settlers lived.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John R. Burner (probable builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; the farm is still owned by the family that established it. The painted parlor decoration is in excellent condition and apparently has not been retouched.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.033665-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6823/41682392/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002117.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002117/4d59a3bbee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002117/4d59a3bbee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kevin M. Byrne","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massanutton_Heights_1.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:Massanutton_Heights_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682392","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massanutton_Heights","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15250664"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/page-county/massanutton-heights-76002117/"}