{"nrhp_refnum":"83003271","name":"McConnell-Neve House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"228 14th St., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.03649738000007,"lon":-78.49286812399998,"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-story Victorian house at 228 Fourteenth Street N.W. in Charlottesville, Virginia, built around 1894 for Mattie F. Connell on a lot in McKennie's Addition.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the city's finest examples of the Victorian-Queen Anne style. Its slender octagonal tower, steep roof and irregular silhouette add a Chateauesque touch that sets it apart from other Victorian buildings in Charlottesville. It has had no major exterior changes except a partly enclosed back porch. Reviewers accepted it as architecturally significant within the context of the city's multiple resource nomination.","narrative":"Built around 1894, this two-story house at 228 Fourteenth Street N.W. in Charlottesville was first owned by Mattie F. Connell, who bought the lot in McKennie's Addition in 1892. It has a high-pitched hip roof of red-painted standing-seam metal, weatherboard walls, wooden-shingled gables, and a slender three-story octagonal tower with a steep pyramidal roof and finial. A small entrance porch has bracketed Eastlake posts, and a south wing holds the open-well stair hall. The house was sold in 1903 and again in 1907 to F. W. Neve, who owned it for 42 years and apparently rented it out. It later passed through ten owners and has been divided into three apartments. The nomination describes it as one of the city's finest examples of the Victorian-Queen Anne style, with a Chateauesque touch from its tower and irregular silhouette. Apart from a partly enclosed back porch, its exterior has changed little since construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian (Victorian-Queen Anne with a touch of Chateauesque)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good; in use as rental property divided into three apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.493261-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/6786/41678667/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003271.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003271/4e7cf78be2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003271/4e7cf78be2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McConnell-Neve_House_site,_Charlottesville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McConnell-Neve_House_site,_Charlottesville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678667","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McConnell%E2%80%93Neve_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15252519"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/mcconnell-neve-house-83003271/"}