{"nrhp_refnum":"85000300","name":"Graham, Maj. David, House","other_names":["Cedar Run Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 619 and 626","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fosters Falls","county":"Wythe County","state":"VA","lat":36.916087805000046,"lon":-80.87173990022669,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large 2½-story wood and brick farmhouse known as Cedar Run Farm, on a hill near the intersection of VA Routes 619 and 626 at Fosters Falls, Wythe County, Virginia. It was built in four campaigns: ca. 1840, ca. 1855, ca. 1870 and ca. 1890.","why_significant":"The house's successive additions, from late Federal to orientalized Queen Anne, record the changing architectural taste of a prosperous southwestern Virginia family. The building campaigns track the fortunes of the regional iron industry. It is also the site most closely associated with ironmaster David Graham and his son, Major David Pierce Graham.","narrative":"Cedar Run Farm, also called the Major David Graham House, is a large wood and brick house on a hill in Wythe County, Virginia. It grew through four building campaigns between about 1840 and 1890, moving from a late Federal and Greek Revival frame section with an elaborate carved entry to a 45-foot-square Italianate brick addition, then a hip-on-hip slate roof with a tower, and finally Queen Anne bay windows with Moorish-arched trellises. Outbuildings include an office and commissary, springhouse, summer kitchen and barns, along with brick walks and fish ponds. The house matters as a record of changing architectural taste and of the fortunes of the regional iron industry. David Graham, called the Squire, bought the land in 1826 and became known as the first ironmaster of southwestern Virginia. His son, Major David Pierce Graham, a Confederate officer, inherited part of his holdings and continued remodeling the house. The Graham family kept the farm until 1944.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Eastlake and Queen Anne elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and unaltered, with the house and outbuildings kept in excellent repair; present use is agriculture and private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.312839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/6842/41684217/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/85000300.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000300/4f229620f6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000300/4f229620f6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"IxieVerns","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_Grahams2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">IxieVerns</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_Grahams2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684217","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maj._David_Graham_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15243913"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/wythe-county/graham-maj-david-house-85000300/"}