{"nrhp_refnum":"78003043","name":"Singers Glen Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Funk, Joseph, House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 613 and VA 712","address_restricted":false,"city":"Singers Glen","county":"Rockingham County","state":"VA","lat":38.528827075000066,"lon":-78.91444894914112,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural village historic district of about 69 buildings on roughly 125 acres in a mountain hollow along State Route 613 in western Rockingham County, Virginia. Its buildings date mainly from the 1880-1900 period, with some earlier structures.","why_significant":"The district is a small, well-preserved late nineteenth-century village that grew up around Joseph Funk's shape-note hymnal publishing, which began in the early 1800s. Its greatest prosperity came after the publishing firm left in 1878, and its turn-of-the-century architecture makes it one of the Shenandoah Valley's most picturesque villages. It also reflects the Funk and Swank families' commercial and political influence.","narrative":"Singers Glen is a village of about 69 buildings spread along Route 613 in a mountain hollow in western Rockingham County, Virginia. It began in the early nineteenth century around the farm of Joseph Funk, who compiled and later published shape-note hymnals for rural religious groups. A post office opened in 1860 and the settlement took the name Singers Glen. The publishing firm moved to Dayton in 1878, yet the village prospered most in the following decades, and about 70 percent of its buildings predate World War I. Notable structures include the Victorian Gothic Glen Farm, Eastlake-style houses built by local craftsmen, the brick T. Funk and Sons Store of 1895, the Swank Store, two churches, and an old cemetery. The Funk and Swank families shaped local commerce and politics, and the village was briefly incorporated in 1894. Growth stopped after World War I, leaving a well-preserved late nineteenth-century community.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Local craftsmen Edwin Funk (carpenter), Harry Funk (plasterer) and Fred Baer (mason) built several of the houses","architectural_style":"Late Victorian Gothic, Eastlake, provincial Victorian and Perpendicular Gothic; vernacular frame and brick village buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; the village retains most of its original buildings, with a few modern intrusions such as a gasoline station and mid-twentieth-century houses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.889931-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/6835/41683505/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/78003043.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003043/9bff1b2b41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003043/9bff1b2b41-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singers_Glen_post_office_22850.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singers_Glen_post_office_22850.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683505","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singers_Glen_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15277873"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockingham-county/singers-glen-historic-district-78003043/"}