{"nrhp_refnum":"79003085","name":"Snapp House","other_names":["Wildflower Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Fishers Hill on VA 757","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fishers Hill","county":"Shenandoah County","state":"VA","lat":38.97241790700008,"lon":-78.42463936899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Continental log house with a stone ell, built into a bank beside Snapps Run near Fishers Hill in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It dates from the late 18th century, with a stone wing added in the early 19th century.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare surviving example of the central-chimney houses built by German-speaking settlers in western Virginia. Its bank siting, original four-room Kreuzhaus plan, Continental-type roof trusses and partial basement all reflect Germanic building tradition. The basement spring is described as very rare in Virginia.","narrative":"Built into a slope beside Snapps Run in Shenandoah County, this two-story log house follows the building customs of the German-speaking settlers who populated the Shenandoah Valley in the late 18th century. It sits on a limestone basement and was laid out as a four-room Kreuzhaus, with a kitchen holding a massive stone fireplace, a heated parlor warmed by a five-plate iron stove, and a narrow chamber behind. A spring rises in the cellar, a feature the nomination calls very rare in Virginia, and a stream ran on to supply a springhouse trough in the yard. A stone ell, carrying the date 1824 on a fireplace but possibly built nearer 1837, was added behind the log block. Ownership passed from Lawrence Snapp, Sr., through his heirs, to John Copp by 1836. The house was listed as a rare, remarkably complete example of German-American life in the Valley.","period_of_significance":"late 18th century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Continental (German) log Flurkuchenhaus, Kreuzhaus variant","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; the property has been renovated by its recent owner and was known as Wildflower Farm.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.884206-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/6836/41683615/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003085.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003085/9a9ad0c466-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003085/9a9ad0c466-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snapp_House_from_east.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snapp_House_from_east.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683615","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapp_House_(Fishers_Hill,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15278291"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/shenandoah-county/snapp-house-79003085/"}