{"nrhp_refnum":"89001816","name":"Charlton, James, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 666, 1.3 mi. SW of VA 724","address_restricted":false,"city":"Radford","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.09832428900006,"lon":-80.49811048499998,"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 farm complex near Radford in Montgomery County, Virginia, centered on a two-story log house built about 1810 by James Charlton, with a chimney from a former kitchen and several outbuildings on less than two acres beside the old Mud Pike.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusual domestic example of early nineteenth-century log construction with a double-pile, four-room plan that has no known parallel in the region. Later weatherboarding, bracketed cornice and porch show how a common vernacular building changed over about a century of continuous use. The outbuildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries extend the period of significance.","narrative":"Along the old Mud Pike, once part of the Ingles Ferry Road and the main route through Southwest Virginia, stands a farm begun by James Charlton, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1752 and died in 1825. His house is a large two-story log building, about thirty-one feet square, covered in late nineteenth-century weatherboard and fitted with a bracketed cornice, sawn bargeboards and a front porch. Two coursed rubble chimneys are joined by a five-foot stone wall. Inside, each floor holds a front and rear range of two rooms, a double-pile arrangement unknown elsewhere in the region. Nearby are a stone chimney from a vanished kitchen, a board-and-batten meathouse, a corncrib, a barn and garages from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The property was listed for its architecture. It shows how a vernacular log house was updated and used continuously for roughly a hundred years, while keeping a room layout without known parallel in the area.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1810-ca. 1910","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Other: four-room plan (log construction with late nineteenth-century weatherboard)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function are both listed as single dwelling with secondary structures and agricultural outbuildings; few alterations since the early twentieth century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.931893-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/6787/41678766/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001816.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001816/a6c8361302-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001816/a6c8361302-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Charlton_Farm_-_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:James_Charlton_Farm_-_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678766","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Charlton_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712616"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/charlton-james-farm-89001816/"}