{"nrhp_refnum":"89001794","name":"Davis-Beard House","other_names":["Glee Hall","Davis House","76-245"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"10726 Bristow Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bristow","county":"Prince William County","state":"VA","lat":38.72340613200004,"lon":-77.53719682799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame, two-story Victorian house with a general store and post office addition, plus a brick carriage house and a lattice privy, at the junction of Bristow Road and the Southern Railroad in Bristow, Prince William County, Virginia. It was built in sections after the Civil War.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest and most elaborately detailed late Victorian general store and merchant's quarters remaining in Prince William County. It keeps a high share of original fabric, including the storefront, pressed tin ceiling and shelving. It combined a store, family residence, railroad tavern and post office, and is presented as a symbol of the county's rural heritage.","narrative":"Beside the railroad tracks in the village of Bristow, this rambling frame house grew in stages after the Civil War. It began as a center-hall I-house, rebuilt by the Davis family after their earlier building was damaged in the 1863 Battle of Bristoe, and they named it Glee Hall. Later additions brought a parlor wing, dining room, general store and a post office building moved across the tracks around 1920. The property also served as a railroad hotel and tavern, and Robert Davis ran a hardware and lumber business here. A brick carriage house and a lattice-walled privy complete the half-acre lot. The nomination values the complex for its unusually intact storefront with projecting display windows, pressed tin ceiling, original shelving, decorated gables and wraparound porch. It is described as the finest late Victorian general store and merchant's residence surviving in Prince William County, and as a reminder of the rural commercial centers that once served local communities.","period_of_significance":"1865-1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Folk Victorian I-house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in remarkably original condition; used as a home and antique shop at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.936706-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6827/41682723/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001794.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001794/c8e8ba37e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001794/c8e8ba37e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DAVIS-BEARD_HOUSE,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY,VA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:DAVIS-BEARD_HOUSE,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY,VA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682723","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Beard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15213160"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-william-county/davis-beard-house-89001794/"}