{"nrhp_refnum":"80004221","name":"Mountain View","other_names":["Fishburn House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"714 13th St., SW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.269018137000046,"lon":-79.96372874199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mountain View, also called the Fishburn House, is a Georgian Revival residence at 714 13th Street, S.W., in Roanoke, Virginia. It was built in 1907 to designs by local architect H. H. Huggins.","why_significant":"The house is considered a notable early example of Georgian Revival architecture in Virginia. It is also tied to Junius Blair Fishburn, Roanoke's leading banker, newspaper owner and philanthropist, and reflects the city's rapid industrial and residential growth in the early 20th century.","narrative":"Mountain View is a monumental Georgian Revival house at 714 13th Street, S.W., in Roanoke. Completed in 1907 from designs by local architect H. H. Huggins, it is a 2½-story cream-colored pressed-brick residence with a green tile hipped roof and a colossal front portico of fluted Ionic columns. Inside, a central open-well stair, an ornate dining room, coffered ceilings in the library and den, and leaded-glass details survive. Two original brick cottages stand north of the house on landscaped grounds of about two acres. The house was built for Junius Blair Fishburn, president of the National Exchange Bank of Roanoke, who later owned the city's newspapers and gave land and money to parks and colleges. The property recognizes both its architecture, which mixes Neo-classical, Georgian and Tudor ideas, and its link to Roanoke's growth from a small railroad town into a city of more than 35,000 people by 1907. The city now uses it as offices.","period_of_significance":"1907","architect_builder":"H. H. Huggins, Architect","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site. It currently serves as offices of the city's Department of Parks and Recreation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.201215-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/6833/41683307/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/80004221.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004221/5edd21c105-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004221/5edd21c105-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Patriarca12","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_View_in_Roanoke,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriarca12</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:Mountain_View_in_Roanoke,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85001349","name":"Southwest Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/southwest-historic-district-85001349/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683307","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_(Roanoke,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712923"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/mountain-view-80004221/"}