{"nrhp_refnum":"76002183","name":"Glass, Carter, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"605 Clay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynchburg (Independent City)","county":"Lynchburg","state":"VA","lat":37.41524418900005,"lon":-79.14719797539288,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-08","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1976-12-08","areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Economics","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2-story red-brick house at 605 Clay Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, designed and built in 1827 by John Wills (the form also refers to him as John Mills) and later home to Senator Carter Glass.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Carter Glass from 1907 to 1923, the period of his greatest national significance. Glass drafted the Glass-Owen Act creating the Federal Reserve System, served as Secretary of the Treasury, and later helped shape the Glass-Steagall Act and the Banking Act of 1935. He kept ownership of the house until his death in 1946.","narrative":"Built in 1827 by John Wills, a lawyer and architect, this red-brick house at 605 Clay Street in Lynchburg has a raised stone-foundation basement, a slate hipped roof, eight gabled dormers and an Ionic front portico. Its central-hall plan, wood mantels and original sliding doors survive. Carter Glass bought it in 1907 and lived there with his family until 1923, keeping it until he died in 1946. He installed central heating and plumbing, raised the attic roof and added the dormers. These years covered his greatest national influence. In Congress he drafted the Glass-Owen Act of 1913, which established the Federal Reserve System. He served as Secretary of the Treasury in 1919-20, and in 1933 he helped push through the Glass-Steagall Act on banking reform. A church acquired the house in 1960 and uses it as a parish house, with only minor changes to the interior and the Clay Street setting.","period_of_significance":"1907-1923","architect_builder":"John Wills (also given as John Mills in the description)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"In good condition with minor alterations; used as a parish house by the adjoining church, with a carriage house used as a church nursery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.365247-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6790/41679087/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002183_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002183/364b7f01c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002183/364b7f01c9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Richard Cheek, Photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wills-Davis-Glass_House_(Lynchburg,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Cheek, Photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wills-Davis-Glass_House_(Lynchburg,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679087","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Glass_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047159"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lynchburg/glass-carter-house-76002183/"}