{"nrhp_refnum":"89001813","name":"Grayson-Gravely House","other_names":["60-117"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 613 at Little River Bridge","address_restricted":false,"city":"Graysontown","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.04349903600007,"lon":-80.56245935799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay frame dwelling with a three-stage tower, on a high bank above Virginia Route 613 overlooking the Little River, near Graysontown in Montgomery County, Virginia. It was moved to its present site in 1881 according to local sources.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is an unusual late nineteenth-century dwelling with a great profusion of exterior ornamentation, and says it is the most elaborately decorated house from any period in the county. It also embodies vernacular forms, including an original hall-parlor plan later expanded to a center-passage plan with an ell.","narrative":"Overlooking the Little River from a high bank beside Virginia Route 613 near Graysontown, this frame house looks like a conventional two-story, three-bay, center-passage dwelling until its decoration is noticed. A three-bay porch with Doric columns carries an enclosed second-floor room, and a three-stage tower rises at the south gable end. Sawn balusters, brackets, dentils, fishscale shingles, keystoned window panels and spool-work gables cover the front. Inside, beaded board partitions suggest the older section dates to the mid-nineteenth century or earlier, and local sources say the house was moved to the site in 1881. The ornament is said to have been added by Mrs. Gravely in the 1890s, and may have come from the Grayson family sawmill nearby. The house was recognized for its architecture as the most elaborately decorated house in Montgomery County, and for its vernacular plan, which grew from two rooms to a center passage with an ell. It remains a carefully maintained single dwelling.","period_of_significance":"1880-1900","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling and described as carefully maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.402876-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/6787/41678782/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001813.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001813/87c499ea6d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001813/87c499ea6d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grayson-Gravely_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Skye Marthaler</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:Grayson-Gravely_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678782","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayson%E2%80%93Gravely_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712385"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/grayson-gravely-house-89001813/"}