{"nrhp_refnum":"92001704","name":"Locust Grove","other_names":["DHR File No. 118-29"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 501 S side, 3000 ft. E of jct. with VA 644","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynchburg (Independent City)","county":"Lynchburg","state":"VA","lat":37.44022258250004,"lon":-79.24932084150254,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-12-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, one-and-a-half-story timber-frame Federal-style house on a 32-acre tract in Lynchburg, Virginia, begun about 1810 for Edmund Cobbs, Jr., and enlarged between about 1825 and 1830. Four outbuildings from 1932 are also included.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good representative example of an early nineteenth-century planter's residence, notable for its original plan and design. Its 1932 renovation also illustrates the period's renewed interest in \"colonial\" architecture and Williamsburg-style restorations. The house also reflects three generations of the Cobbs farm family and their economic decline.","narrative":"Locust Grove is a five-bay, one-and-a-half-story timber-frame house with four end chimneys, located on a 32-acre tract in Lynchburg, Virginia. Edmund Cobbs, Jr., began it about 1810 as a side-passage, double-pile dwelling on a Bedford County farm. Between 1825 and 1830 he enlarged it into the symmetrical central-passage plan seen today. Construction evidence includes hewn and pit-sawn framing members and early cut nails. The house reflects the conservative building habits of a modest planter family, whose fortunes declined through soil exhaustion, the Civil War and bankruptcy. In 1932 new owner John Capron renovated the house in a Williamsburg-inspired manner, adding a brick porch and stoop, an octagonal parlor and modern utilities, and building a garage, barn, guest house and tenant house. The property is recognized for its architecture as a representative early nineteenth-century planter's house and as an example of the 1930s colonial revival.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1810-1932","architect_builder":"Unknown (built for Edmund Cobbs, Jr.)","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling with secondary structures.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.923699-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/6817/41681741/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92001704.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001704/2b916a6729-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001704/2b916a6729-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locust_Grove_Lynchburg_VA_Nov_09.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locust_Grove_Lynchburg_VA_Nov_09.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681741","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust_Grove_(Lynchburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6666114"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lynchburg/locust-grove-92001704/"}