{"nrhp_refnum":"90002178","name":"Plumb House","other_names":["DHR File No. 136-3"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1012 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waynesboro (Independent City)","county":"Waynesboro","state":"VA","lat":38.07137230500007,"lon":-78.89735796899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story log dwelling built circa 1810-20 at 1012 West Main Street in Waynesboro, Virginia, with a rear kitchen ell, a smokehouse/summer kitchen and a modern shed on a 75' x 210' lot.","why_significant":"The house is one of the oldest substantially intact dwellings in Waynesboro and one of a handful of antebellum structures left in the city. It has elaborate Federal-style mantels and an exterior end chimney of Flemish-bond brick with glazed headers, a rare survival in the Valley of Virginia. It is eligible under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Built between about 1810 and 1820, this two-story log house on West Main Street in Waynesboro is among the oldest substantially intact dwellings in the city. It was erected for Thomas Wilson on a three-acre lot in one of the town's early subdivisions. Alfred Plumb, who ran a tavern elsewhere in town, bought the property in 1838, and his descendants have held it ever since. The house began on a hall-chamber plan, later converted to a central passage. It has a stone foundation, tall brick end chimneys and a mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival porch. One chimney is laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers, a pattern the form calls extremely rare in early Valley of Virginia construction. The parlor has an elaborate Federal mantel with carved rosettes and stop-fluted Doric pilasters. A rear kitchen ell and an early smokehouse/summer kitchen survive. Once residential, the street is now commercial, which leaves the house as an anomaly among concrete-block buildings.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1810-1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with a secondary structure; the form says the owner's family has lived there continuously, and the house is relatively unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.513638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/6840/41684073/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002178/d78d02bd15-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002178/d78d02bd15-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ben Schumin","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plumb_House_from_street.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Schumin</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:Plumb_House_from_street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684073","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb_House_(Waynesboro,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7205388"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/waynesboro/plumb-house-90002178/"}