{"nrhp_refnum":"90002014","name":"Morven","other_names":["DHR file # 24-27"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 45, 1/2 mi. S of Cartersville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cartersville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"VA","lat":37.65926870100003,"lon":-78.09882143199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house on Route 45, about half a mile south of Cartersville in Cumberland County, Virginia, built in 1820 as a wedding present for Randolph Harrison's daughter Jane. The property also includes a smoke house, a schoolhouse, a windmill pump and a garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant. Its original Federal/Early Classical Revival section is intact, and the second-floor single-sash windows rise into a deep cornice, giving the facade a monumental quality unusual for a residence of its size. Later nineteenth-century additions kept the house's character and added an unusual double pediment at the rear.","narrative":"Morven is a two-story brick house about half a mile south of Cartersville in Cumberland County, Virginia. Built in 1820 on five acres, it was a wedding present from Randolph Harrison to his daughter Jane. The original section is laid in Flemish bond, with a center hall plan one room deep and a heavy cornice that runs around the building, including the gable ends. The second-floor windows slide up into pockets behind that cornice, a feature the nomination calls unusual and monumental for a house of this size. The Bogert family bought the property in 1870 and added to it in 1885, 1895 and 1930. Outbuildings include a cedar-log smoke house, a schoolhouse built about 1890 so the Bogert children could be taught on site, and an early twentieth-century windmill pump. The house was used as a family retreat rather than a working farm, apart from a well-known poultry business.","period_of_significance":"1820-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Classical Revival (described in the text as Federal style)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a private single-family residence; the schoolhouse is now used as an apartment and the smoke house as a doghouse.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.828157-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/6803/41680331/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002014.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002014/c1b302d0cd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002014/c1b302d0cd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closeup_view_of_Morven,_Cartersville,_Virginia,_at_dusk.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closeup_view_of_Morven,_Cartersville,_Virginia,_at_dusk.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680331","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morven_(Cartersville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6915167"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/cumberland-county/morven-90002014/"}