{"nrhp_refnum":"79003093","name":"Erin","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Front Royal on U.S. 340/522","address_restricted":false,"city":"Front Royal","county":"Warren County","state":"VA","lat":39.02150735750007,"lon":-78.16052700550031,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Erin is a wood-frame Greek Revival temple-form house with flanking wings and a group of outbuildings, set on a small hill off Route 340, about five miles north of Front Royal in Warren County, Virginia. It was built in 1848 for David Funsten.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Erin as a sophisticated example of a three-part Classical Revival house that combines a Greek Ionic temple portico with the Palladian three-part scheme. Its form and details are tied to popular pattern books by Minard Lafever and Asher Benjamin. The house also reflects the prosperity of its builder, a Warren County lawyer, and keeps fine Greek Revival interior detailing and a collection of outbuildings.","narrative":"Erin is a Greek Revival house on a small hill off Route 340, about five miles north of Front Royal in Warren County. Built in 1848 for lawyer and legislator David Funsten, it has a central wood-frame block with a two-story Ionic portico and one-and-a-half-story flanking wings. The entrance doorway was patterned after a design in Asher Benjamin's 1833 pattern book, and the overall form resembles a plate in Minard Lafever's guide of the same year. Inside, an open-well spiral stair with Greek-fret brackets rises in the hall, and the dining room has carved anthemia over its doors and windows. Behind the house stand a stone kitchen, law office, dairy, log smokehouse, chicken house and granary. The property is considered significant because it joins the classical temple front with the three-part Palladian plan, and because its scale reflects Funsten's success. Funsten moved to Alexandria in 1853, and the property passed to his brother-in-law by 1855.","period_of_significance":"1848","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival / Classical Revival three-part house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent; the property is private and occupied as a private residence, and the main house is described as retaining its original outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.897773-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/6840/41684019/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003093.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003093/9422f405ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003093/9422f405ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"AgnosticPreachersKid","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erin_Front_Royal_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">AgnosticPreachersKid</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erin_Front_Royal_1.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"15000809","name":"Rockland Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/rockland-rural-historic-district-15000809/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684019","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_(Front_Royal,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15216738"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/warren-county/erin-79003093/"}