{"nrhp_refnum":"82004604","name":"Waverly Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3001 N. Augusta St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Staunton (Independent City)","county":"Staunton","state":"VA","lat":38.170275251500044,"lon":-79.04410131680864,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Waverley Hill is a Georgian Revival country house at 3001 North Augusta Street in Staunton, Virginia, built in 1929 to designs by New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley. It is a brick five-part house on a hilltop with informally landscaped grounds.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an elegant, well-preserved example of Georgian Revival design by Bottomley, who drew on Palladian, English and colonial Virginia precedents. It is described as the finest example of its style in the region and one of only two or three Bottomley houses built outside the Richmond and Middleburg areas. The grounds were designed by landscape architect Arthur Shurtcleff of Boston.","narrative":"Waverley Hill is a brick country house of 1929 on a hilltop at the north end of Staunton, Virginia. Its five-part plan has a five-bay, two-and-a-half-story center block with a slate hipped roof, pedimented dormers and pineapple finials, linked by low hyphens to one-story wings. The brick came from a ruined early 19th-century house in Augusta County. Inside, a center hall with a single-run stair leads to an octagonal dining room, a paneled living room and a library, all aligned along a vista about two hundred feet long. New York architect William Lawrence Bottomley designed the house for Herbert McKelden Smith and his wife, who took the name from an earlier family house that burned. Bottomley drew on Palladian, English and colonial Virginia models, and the house is regarded as the region's finest example of its style. Arthur Shurtcleff of Boston designed the informally landscaped grounds, which command views of the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1929)","architect_builder":"William Lawrence Bottomley","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival (Neo-Georgian), combining English and colonial Virginia idioms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, and occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.417032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6838/41683823/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004604.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004604/41c3d937a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004604/41c3d937a2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waverly_Hill_entrance_gateposts.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waverly_Hill_entrance_gateposts.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683823","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902994"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/staunton/waverly-hill-82004604/"}