{"nrhp_refnum":"89001900","name":"Rife House","other_names":["60-443"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 633 at US 460/11","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shawsville","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.17743190600004,"lon":-80.23668608199995,"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 weatherboarded frame Queen Anne-style house on a large rural lot along U.S. 460/11 northeast of Shawsville, Montgomery County, Virginia, built around 1905, with a frame outbuilding and a modern garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is eligible under criterion C as an unusually large and stylish house using decorative and planning elements adapted from published pattern books. It is the only nominated Queen Anne example in rural Montgomery County, where such houses are few. Its iron cresting, slate roof and rich decoration mark it as the home of a wealthy family.","narrative":"Along U.S. 460/11 northeast of Shawsville stands a large two-story frame house built around 1905 for K. M. Rife, who came to the area from the coalfields of western Virginia. Its weatherboarded walls rise to a flat-topped hipped roof of slate with cast iron cresting. Two-story bays with projecting gables face north, south and west, and the west gable holds a Palladian window with keystone. A curved one-story porch with Doric columns wraps three sides. Inside, the irregular plan, Queen Anne mantels and open stringer stair reflect pattern-book influence unusual for the region. The house was listed for its architecture. Queen Anne houses are rare in Montgomery County, and this is the only nominated rural example. Its decoration and costly materials, including iron cresting and slate, point to a wealthy owner. A frame outbuilding, probably a meathouse, shows how domestic space was used in the period.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1905","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as commerce/trade: business; the interior has lowered ceilings that the form describes as reversible alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.558034-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/6787/41678784/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001900.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001900/52291694f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001900/52291694f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rife_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:Rife_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678784","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rife_House_(Shawsville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713132"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/rife-house-89001900/"}