{"nrhp_refnum":"90002004","name":"Prices Fork Historic District","other_names":["DHR file # 60-224"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Prices Fork Rd. from VA 737 roughly to VA 654","address_restricted":false,"city":"Prices Fork","county":"Montgomery County","state":"VA","lat":37.209893453000035,"lon":-80.49063886579822,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small crossroads village district at the intersection of VA Routes 685, 654 and 737 in Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia, with 13 contributing and 2 noncontributing buildings dating mainly from 1871 to about 1930.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criterion C as a group of well preserved buildings showing how a country-store village grew at a fork in a turnpike from the late 19th into the early 20th century. Its diverse houses, stores and churches form a dense, coherent landscape, linked by maple lines and large oaks.","narrative":"Prices Fork is a rural village in Montgomery County, Virginia, clustered along VA Route 685 where the old road toward Peppers Ferry splits from the road to Browns Ferry. The district holds fifteen buildings: houses, two stores, two churches, a former schoolhouse and outbuildings, dating from 1871 to about 1930. James Bain Price built the brick Greek Revival house, with its log meathouse and barn, and a gable-fronted frame store in 1871. St. Marks Lutheran Church moved to the village in 1877, and a Methodist church, further houses and a second store followed. Large oaks, maples and catalpas tie the buildings together visually. The district was listed for architecture because it shows how a country-store village developed beside a turnpike between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its consistency and integrity set it apart from other communities in the western part of the county. A modern grange hall and a ranch-style parsonage are the only noncontributing buildings.","period_of_significance":"1871-1940","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th c.: Greek Revival; other: center passage plan; Foursquare","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Most resources are well preserved; the Methodist Church is still in use, St. Marks Lutheran Church has been converted to apartments, and the early 20th-century store (60-224-8) is vacant but not beyond restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.609798-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/6787/41678768/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002004.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002004/86517a31fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002004/86517a31fd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prices_Fork_Historic_District.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:Prices_Fork_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_Fork_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713098"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/montgomery-county/prices-fork-historic-district-90002004/"}