{"nrhp_refnum":"86001249","name":"Fairview Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 658","address_restricted":false,"city":"Front Royal","county":"Warren County","state":"VA","lat":38.99448720600003,"lon":-78.13117835899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story framed timber farmhouse with a hipped roof at Fairview Farm, near Rockland and Front Royal in Warren County, Virginia, built in the late eighteenth century and probably for Samuel Shackelford.","why_significant":"The house is presented as the home of a prosperous lower Shenandoah Valley settler of English descent. It combines Continental (German) plan and decorative features with English and popular elements, with very different first- and second-floor plans. This mingling illustrates how ethnic groups in the late eighteenth century Valley depended on one another and how folk forms survived as ordering and decorative elements.","narrative":"Fairview Farm is a nearly square, two-story timber-framed house with a hipped roof, set on rolling ground near Rockland in Warren County, Virginia. It was probably built for Samuel Shackelford in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Its first floor follows a three-room plan with Continental roots, while the second floor resembles the double-pile center-passage house familiar from Tidewater buildings. Inside, the ground-floor rooms have paneled wainscot, a carved crown molding and an ornate southwest mantel with overmantel. Over time the house gained one-story additions, a wide east porch and, in the early twentieth century, stucco and a dormer that made it look like a foursquare. A 1984 restoration removed those changes and rebuilt the two-story porches and other lost features. The property was listed because it shows English and German building traditions blending in the late eighteenth century Shenandoah Valley, where English-descended settlers and German-American neighbors shared ideas of plan and finish.","period_of_significance":"fourth quarter, eighteenth century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored in 1984, with later additions removed and early features recreated where evidence allowed; the house is occupied and in excellent condition, surrounded by a modern golf course.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.656124-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6840/41684025/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86001249.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001249/d7013de475-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001249/d7013de475-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"self","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairview,_side_view2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">self</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairview,_side_view2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684025","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15217240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/warren-county/fairview-farm-86001249/"}