{"nrhp_refnum":"93001122","name":"Shenandoah County Farm","other_names":["Shenandoah County Almshouse","Beckford Parish Glebe Farm","85-86"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N side VA 654, 4000 ft. E of jct. with US 11","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maurertown","county":"Shenandoah County","state":"VA","lat":38.93259987350007,"lon":-78.44514149539468,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Military"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A county almshouse and working farm near Maurertown, Shenandoah County, Virginia, built in 1829 on former Beckford Parish glebe land. The brick Federal-style complex has a two-story central house with long one-story wings, plus a barn, spring house, meat house and cemetery.","why_significant":"The almshouse was Shenandoah County's main means of caring for the poor for most of its history, which gives it importance in social history. It is also a rare, well-preserved example of an early 19th-century Federal-style institutional building. The farm retains a high degree of architectural and visual integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1829 near Maurertown, this brick almshouse and its 220-acre farm served as Shenandoah County's home for the poor. The symmetrical building has a two-story central house, once the superintendent's residence, flanked by two 75-foot wings. Each wing holds five one-room apartments. The farm stands on former glebe land of Beckford Parish, and an earlier almshouse occupied the old glebe farmhouse from 1800. Outbuildings include a spring house, a meat house, a barn, and a cemetery with an estimated hundred to two hundred mostly unmarked graves. A 1909 state survey called the institution one of the best in Virginia, and the county declined to join a district home system in 1918. In October 1864 Confederate cavalry camped on the farm before the Battle of Tom's Brook. Listing recognizes its role in local welfare history and its rare, well-preserved Federal institutional design, which continues to serve its original purpose.","period_of_significance":"1829-1943","architect_builder":"Not known","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still operating as a county farm and almshouse; the fields are leased to a local farmer and the 1991 text reports seven residents.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.217522-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6836/41683623/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93001122.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001122/789f7623e2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001122/789f7623e2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shenandoah_County_Farm_stone_outbuilding.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shenandoah_County_Farm_stone_outbuilding.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683623","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_County_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15277138"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/shenandoah-county/shenandoah-county-farm-93001122/"}