{"nrhp_refnum":"82001806","name":"Gardner-Mays Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1022 Grove St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.02914289000006,"lon":-78.49870088099993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story vernacular stucco workers' cottage at 1022 (formerly 1212) Grove Street in the Fifeville neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia, built in 1891 for James A. Gardner.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a representative example of the dozens of nearly identical workers' cottages built around the turn of the century in Fifeville, Belmont and the area northwest of Starr Hill. It is one of very few that remain in original form, without additions or new siding. The reviewer noted high integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1891 at 1022 Grove Street (originally 1212) in Charlottesville's Fifeville neighborhood, this small stucco cottage is a simple one-over-one-room house with an original one-room rear wing. Both sections have medium-pitched gable roofs with boxed cornices, now covered in standing-seam tin. Windows are six-over-six double-sash, and a one-story porch with chamfered posts shelters the two-bay facade. Inside, a single flight of stairs rises to one upstairs room. James A. Gardner bought the lot in 1891 and built two cottages at the Grove Street end the same year; two more followed near King Street around 1905. The railroad is said to have financed a number of such three-room workers' cottages in Fifeville during the 1890s. This one was usually rental property, except from 1947 to 1967, when the Mays family owned and lived in it. It is valued as a representative, largely unaltered example of a once-common local house type.","period_of_significance":"1891","architect_builder":"James A. Gardner (original owner, built the cottage)","architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; used as rental property (residence).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.981961-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6786/41678645/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82001806.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001806/a9974239de-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001806/a9974239de-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nickmorgan2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gardner_Mays.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nickmorgan2</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:Gardner_Mays.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678645","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner%E2%80%93Mays_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15221404"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/gardner-mays-cottage-82001806/"}