{"nrhp_refnum":"89001815","name":"Guerrant House","other_names":["Pilot House","60-7"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 612 at VA 615","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pilot","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.05402251000004,"lon":-80.35804016599997,"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 frame double-pile center-passage house with a hipped roof, on the north side of the main road through Pilot, Montgomery County, Virginia. Architectural features and tax records point to construction around 1870, with a meathouse and springhouse as contributing outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C as an unusual variation of a popular regional house form, possibly shaped by its use as a residence and hotel. It is one of the two best of fourteen double-pile center-passage dwellings from 1865-1900 in the county. It is the only one from the period with a divided passage or interior chimneys centered on a longitudinal axis.","narrative":"Set in a grove of large maples on the main road through the small community of Pilot, this two-story frame house has a hipped roof, weatherboard walls, six-over-six windows and two massive brick chimneys between the rooms. Its plan is unusual: the center passage is divided into front and back sections, each with its own open-riser stair, and a single door joined the two halves. Family tradition holds that the rear part served as an inn, and an 1864 Confederate engineers' map shows a hotel called the Pilot House on the site. Tax records suggest William C. Guerrant built the present house about 1870, when recorded building values rose sharply. Among fourteen double-pile center-passage dwellings from 1865 to 1900 in the county, it is one of the two best and the only one with a divided passage or centered interior chimneys. A meathouse and springhouse from the mid- to late nineteenth century survive nearby, and an early twentieth-century porch extends the period of significance to about 1910.","period_of_significance":"1870-1910","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Double-pile center-passage plan (Georgian-plan house with Greek Revival mantels)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are listed as single dwelling and secondary structures; alterations are described as minor and the property retains its integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.384247-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/6787/41678753/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001815.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001815/eaa2590a81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001815/eaa2590a81-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guerrant_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:Guerrant_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678753","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrant_House_(Pilot,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712418"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/guerrant-house-89001815/"}