{"nrhp_refnum":"94000780","name":"Oak Spring Farm","other_names":["Fultz House","VDHR File No. 81-48"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 706 at jct. with US 11","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fairfield","county":"Rockbridge County","state":"VA","lat":37.90535611750005,"lon":-79.23331021676626,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-10-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Prehistoric"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oak Spring Farm (also called the Fultz House) is a farm near Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Virginia, with a brick I-house built in 1826 and a frame rear ell added about 1858-1860, plus a bank barn and several outbuildings on about 14 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property meets Criterion C because the rear ell uses a rare horizontal-plank construction method, in which oak planks are stacked flat and then plastered and clapboarded. The house has also had few changes and keeps a high degree of integrity. The grounds around the spring have also yielded Native American artifacts, and the form says excavation would likely produce further information.","narrative":"Oak Spring Farm lies at the corner of US 11 and State Route 706 near Fairfield in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on the old Valley Pike between Lexington and Staunton. The farm is arranged around a spring that Native American hunting parties used for thousands of years, and points and scrapers from several periods have been found there. The main house began as a two-story brick I-house built in 1826 for or by William Moore Jr. A frame rear ell followed around 1858 to 1860 under Isaac Fultz. Its walls are built of oak planks stacked horizontally, nailed, and then plastered and clapboarded, an unusual and rare method. Inside, the original poplar woodwork survives, and it was once grained to imitate finer wood. Outbuildings include a large 1878 bank barn, a granary, a smokehouse, a springhouse and an in-ground icehouse. The house has changed little and now operates as a bed and breakfast with a vineyard.","period_of_significance":"1826-1878","architect_builder":"Fultz, Isaac","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is in near-mint condition and is in use as a bed and breakfast inn, with a five-acre vineyard on the farm.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.019438-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/6833/41683382/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/94000780.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000780/f3c3403a04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000780/f3c3403a04-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Philip N. Wheeler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Spring_Farm-4x6-300ppi.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip N. Wheeler</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:Oak_Spring_Farm-4x6-300ppi.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683382","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Spring_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17040564"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockbridge-county/oak-spring-farm-94000780/"}