{"nrhp_refnum":"92001390","name":"Harshbarger House","other_names":["VDHR File No. 80-13"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"316 John Richardson Rd. (Co. Rt. 743)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roanoke (Independent City)","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.32187713800005,"lon":-79.93766765799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story dwelling at 316 John Richardson Road near Roanoke, Virginia, with a one-room limestone section built in 1797 and a brick addition of about 1825, plus a brick kitchen wing, built for Samuel Harshbarger.","why_significant":"It is presented as a well-preserved example of a rare one-room-plan stone house, a form not otherwise known in stone in the region. The later Flemish-bond brick addition shows how the owner responded to changing early nineteenth-century tastes. It is also tied to German and Swiss Brethren immigrants who settled the area and whose stone building tradition rarely survives from the eighteenth century.","narrative":"Near Roanoke, Virginia, this two-story house combines a small limestone section dated 1797 with a brick addition made around 1825. Samuel Harshbarger, the son of German immigrants who came from Pennsylvania, built the stone part as a single room on each floor, marked by a plaque reading SHB 1797 in the west gable. The brick wing, laid in Flemish bond with a hall-parlor plan, faces the opposite direction and reflects regional building habits of the early nineteenth century. A brick kitchen wing stands to the north. The one-room plan in stone is unknown elsewhere in the immediate region, where other stone houses are larger. The house is linked to the Brethren community that settled the northern Roanoke Valley, and its stone construction suggests a German-influenced tradition. Neglected for many years in the mid-twentieth century, it was purchased in 1989 and carefully restored, with significant original fabric retained and the kitchen wing rebuilt.","period_of_significance":"1797-circa 1825","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Other: Single-room plan","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored after decades of mid-twentieth-century neglect; in use as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.954115-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/6832/41683261/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92001390.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001390/19f972b091-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001390/19f972b091-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HARSHBARGER_HOUSE,_HOLLINS,_ROANOKE_COUNTY.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:HARSHBARGER_HOUSE,_HOLLINS,_ROANOKE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683261","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshbarger_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15223110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/harshbarger-house-92001390/"}