{"nrhp_refnum":"79003086","name":"Strasburg Stone and Earthenware Manufacturing Company","other_names":["Strasburg Museum","Steam Pottery","Southern Railroad Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Strasburg","county":"Shenandoah County","state":"VA","lat":38.987368900000035,"lon":-78.35598819499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, ten-bay brick building on East King Street at the railroad tracks in Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built as a pottery factory, later converted to a railroad station, and now houses the Strasburg Museum.","why_significant":"The building is significant as a type: a pottery factory converted to a railroad station within about 25 years. It reflects late 19th-century stylistic detailing, and its roof framing derives from a plate in Asher Benjamin's Elements of Architecture. It is also tied to the local ceramics manufacturing industry.","narrative":"Built as the Strasburg Stone and Earthenware Manufacturing Company, this two-story, ten-bay brick building on East King Street beside the railroad tracks later served as a railroad depot and is now the Strasburg Museum. The walls are laid in seven-course American bond, and the windows and doors have segmental heads. When the railroad took over the building, the second-story windows were shortened to allow a one-story pent roof on molded supports around the long sides and east end. A slate hipped roof carries a shingled monitor with round-headed louvers. Inside, a gallery runs along three sides, and partitions replaced an earlier railroad waiting-room divider. The roof framing resembles a common German system used in the area but comes most directly from a plate in Asher Benjamin's Elements of Architecture. The building was listed because it is a pottery factory converted to a railroad station within about 25 years, because it shows late 19th-century detailing, and because of its link to local ceramics manufacturing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Now used as the Strasburg Museum; the form lists its condition as good and its status as occupied. A railway company letter says the former depot is under long-term lease.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.573097-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6836/41683635/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003086.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003086/a02129af8a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003086/a02129af8a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strasburg_S%26E_Mfg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strasburg_S%26E_Mfg.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683635","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasburg_Stone_and_Earthenware_Manufacturing_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900785"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/shenandoah-county/strasburg-stone-and-earthenware-manufacturing-company-79003086/"}