{"nrhp_refnum":"79003299","name":"Kable House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"310 Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Staunton (Independent City)","county":"Staunton","state":"VA","lat":38.154156174000036,"lon":-79.06890367999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kable House is a two-story brick Italianate building on a raised basement at 310 Prospect Street in Staunton, Virginia, built in 1873-74 for John W. Alby. The original architect is unknown, and it was altered in 1917 by T. J. Collins & Son.","why_significant":"It was the first building of the former Staunton Military Academy, a school that was among the most prominent institutions in Staunton for nearly a century. Architecturally, it is described as one of the most significant and elaborate Italianate structures left in the city.","narrative":"Kable House at 310 Prospect Street in Staunton is a two-story brick Italianate building on a raised basement, built in 1873-74 for John W. Alby. It features a hip roof, a front porch with slender chamfered columns and carved brackets, segmental-arched windows and a bracketed cornice with raised brick panels. Captain William Hartman Kable bought the house in 1884 and used it for his school, later called Staunton Military Academy, where he lived and students used the upstairs as a dormitory. A fire in 1904 destroyed the other campus buildings, but this house survived. In 1917 the local firm T. J. Collins & Son designed changes, including a new front door with an elliptical fanlight, altered second-floor windows, a side wing with a sleeping porch and a modernized interior with Colonial Revival details. The academy closed in 1976, and Mary Baldwin College acquired the property. It is valued as the school's first building and as an elaborate local Italianate example.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Original house - unknown; alterations - T. J. Collins & Son, Staunton","architectural_style":"Italianate, with Colonial Revival alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and altered, with the building owned by Mary Baldwin College after the academy closed in 1976. The form's present-use boxes are not clearly legible.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.729991-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6838/41683835/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003299.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003299/9062593ab5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003299/9062593ab5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kable_House_at_Mary_Baldwin.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kable_House_at_Mary_Baldwin.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84003604","name":"Stuart Addition Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/stuart-addition-historic-district-84003604/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kable_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16851300"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/staunton/kable-house-79003299/"}