{"nrhp_refnum":"83003270","name":"King-Runkle House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 14th St., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.03501250200003,"lon":-78.49929865999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-storey Victorian house at 201 Fourteenth Street N.W. in Charlottesville, Virginia, built in 1891 for L. A. King. It combines Queen Anne massing with Eastlake detailing.","why_significant":"The survey describes it as one of the most intricately detailed Victorian houses left in Charlottesville, and one of the most picturesque in the city. It is noted for contrasting surface materials and Eastlake ornament on the porches and gables. Reviewers accepted it under Criterion C as architecturally significant within the multiple resource area.","narrative":"Built in 1891 for L. A. King, this two-storey house at 201 Fourteenth Street N.W. in Charlottesville is a picturesque Victorian dwelling with Queen Anne massing and Eastlake detail. Weatherboard walls are broken by bands of vertical planking and a shingled pent roof between the storeys. The entrance porch, small balcony and projecting pavilion carry most of the ornament, including turned posts, sawn brackets, spool friezes with pendants and decorated gables. Stained glass lights appear in the door, vestibule and a bay window. The house was sold in 1921 to A.M.E. Runkle, who ran a rooming house there and apparently added a second storey to the rear wing and a side entrance. Later owners, including three sisters, kept it as a rooming house until the 1970s, when it was restored and rented to students. It was listed for its architecture, as one of the most intricately detailed Victorian houses remaining in the city, notable for contrasting materials and Eastlake ornament.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian; Queen Anne massing with Eastlake detail","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; used as a rental residence, and the document says it has been restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.743322-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/6786/41678665/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003270.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003270/5cefd80b80-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003270/5cefd80b80-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nickmorgan2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Runkle.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:King_Runkle.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678665","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Runkle_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15238511"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/king-runkle-house-83003270/"}