{"nrhp_refnum":"79003303","name":"Rose Terrace","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"150 N. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Staunton (Independent City)","county":"Staunton","state":"VA","lat":38.15248034100006,"lon":-79.07111613999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rose Terrace is an L-shaped, two-and-a-half-story Italianate brick house at 150 North Market Street in Staunton, Virginia, built about 1875 as a residence for Holmes Erwin (also Irwin), with a small brick outbuilding called \"Little House.\"","why_significant":"The nomination holds that the house is significant mainly for its ornate architecture and detailing, and also for its association with Mary Baldwin College. It has what the form calls the most elaborate brickwork and chimneys of any Staunton house. The masonry and carpentry are described as the highest local quality, and the exterior remains largely original despite four distinct uses.","narrative":"Rose Terrace is a brick Italianate house at 150 North Market Street in Staunton, Virginia, built about 1875 for Holmes Erwin (also Irwin) on land once part of Judge Lucas P. Thompson's Hilltop estate. The L-shaped building has brick quoins, double string courses, segmental window arches with carved wooden lintels, a gabled central bay, and six tall chimneys with corbelled caps. Large coupled brackets alternate with raised brick panels beneath the roof edge. The house was a single-family home until 1910, then served as the Augusta Sanatorium until 1919, when Mary Baldwin Seminary, later a college, bought it. It later housed the college president and now serves as a dormitory. A small original outbuilding, \"Little House,\" is used as student quarters. The property was listed because of its unusually ornate brickwork, chimneys and carpentry, regarded as the finest local craftsmanship, and because its exterior remains largely original despite its changing uses.","period_of_significance":"c. 1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used by Mary Baldwin College as a dormitory; \"Little House\" serves as student living quarters.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.630435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/6838/41683803/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003303.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003303/abf3fea7a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003303/abf3fea7a2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Strawser","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Baldwin_College_Staunton_VA_Rose_Terrace.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Strawser</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Baldwin_College_Staunton_VA_Rose_Terrace.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683803","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Terrace_(Staunton,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15273301"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/staunton/rose-terrace-79003303/"}