{"nrhp_refnum":"83003261","name":"Shuey, Lewis, House","other_names":["Shuey House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Swoope on VA 713","address_restricted":false,"city":"Swoope","county":"Augusta County","state":"VA","lat":38.118343011000064,"lon":-79.22691587777982,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story log dwelling, later weatherboarded and given a brick wing, on flat bottom land along Middle River near Swoope in western Augusta County, Virginia. It was built about 1795-1800 by Lewis Shuey.","why_significant":"It is described as a very rare example of a pure Rhenish-style house in Augusta County. It has one of only two known Flurkuchenhaus (three-room, center-chimney) plans in the county and the county's only known German-style common rafter roof with heavy underframe. It is also the county's only unremodeled house of its type and a landmark of German ethnic history in the Shenandoah Valley.","narrative":"Built about 1795-1800 on bottom land beside Middle River in western Augusta County, this two-story log house reflects the building traditions of the German Rhineland. Lewis Shuey, a Revolutionary War veteran whose grandfather emigrated from the Rhineland to Pennsylvania in 1732, moved to the county in 1795 and bought a 400-acre tract. His house follows the Flurkuchenhaus plan, with kitchen, parlor and chamber grouped around a large central chimney. It also has an insulated cellar fed by a spring and a heavily braced German-style roof frame. Around 1820-40 a two-level brick wing in the local Georgian and Federal manner was added. Although the exterior has been altered, the house retains much of its original interior finish and is the only unremodeled house of its type in the county. The Shuey family occupied it into the early twentieth century. It is valued as a rare survival of German settlement in the southern Shenandoah Valley.","period_of_significance":"1795-1800","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by Lewis Shuey)","architectural_style":"Rhenish/German Flurkuchenhaus; brick wing in Georgian/Federal style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the form lists the property as occupied and used as a private residence and agriculture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.539517-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/6796/41679677/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003261.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003261/345e2cea8c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003261/345e2cea8c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Shuey_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Shuey_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679677","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Shuey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712699"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/augusta-county/shuey-lewis-house-83003261/"}