{"nrhp_refnum":"91001598","name":"Huntingdon","other_names":["DHR File no. 128-05"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"320 Huntingdon Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.30827909000004,"lon":-79.93904344299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Huntingdon is a large brick Federal-style dwelling built about 1819 at 320 Huntingdon Boulevard in Roanoke, Virginia, on a 5.5-acre parcel. It was built for Elisha and Sally Betts and includes a walled cemetery, a mid-nineteenth-century frame outbuilding and a modern garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Huntingdon is a well-preserved example of a substantial dwelling combining the Federal style with a regionally popular central-passage plan. Later alterations from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries show how successive owners adapted the house sympathetically to changing needs and tastes. The nearby frame dwelling and cemetery add to the site's significance as evidence of housing for domestic slaves and early to mid-nineteenth-century burial practices.","narrative":"Huntingdon is a five-bay, 2½-story brick house built about 1819 on a five-and-a-half-acre site in Roanoke, now surrounded by residential development. Laid in Flemish bond with a limestone foundation and a central-passage plan, it was built for Elisha and Sally Betts, among the most prosperous landowners in the Roanoke Valley at the time. Inside, enriched Federal mantels, flush-paneled wainscot and a broad open-stringer stair survive. Later owners added Greek Revival porches in the mid-nineteenth century, then a new front entry, dormers and baths in the early twentieth century, and the house was restored in 1988 and 1989. A walled cemetery with Betts family gravestones and a board-and-batten outbuilding, probably a slave dwelling, are also part of the property. The house was listed for its architecture, as a well-preserved Federal dwelling whose sympathetic alterations record changing needs and tastes across more than a century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1819-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Mid-Nineteenth Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the house was restored and improved in 1988-1989, and the cemetery remains in place.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.561481-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/6832/41683279/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91001598.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001598/f912af897a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001598/f912af897a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HUNTINGDON,_ROANOKE_CITY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:HUNTINGDON,_ROANOKE_CITY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000647","name":"Roanoke Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/roanoke-downtown-historic-district-boundary-increase-13000647/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683279","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_(Roanoke,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892564"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/huntingdon-91001598/"}