{"nrhp_refnum":"95000894","name":"Long Grass","other_names":["VDHR File No. 58-185"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"VA 826","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eppes Fork","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"VA","lat":36.55471711350006,"lon":-78.34480750408846,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Long Grass is a farm district of about forty acres on the shore of the John H. Kerr Reservoir near Eppes Fork in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It centers on a Greek Revival frame house built in phases from about 1800 to the Civil War, with domestic and farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is significant for agriculture because its outbuildings illustrate the operation of one of the area's most prosperous late-nineteenth-century farms. It is significant for architecture because of the house's early-nineteenth-century detailing and Greek Revival work attributed to builder Jacob W. Holt. The outbuildings also have architectural value. Significance is local.","narrative":"Long Grass is a farm of about forty acres on the shore of the John H. Kerr Reservoir in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, farmed by generations of the Tarry family since the early 1800s. Its two-story frame house began as a small hall-parlor dwelling around 1800. A formal north wing was added about 1840, and a full second story was added to the older wing in the 1850s. Both changes are attributed to the regional builder Jacob W. Holt, and the porches show the shift in his style between the two decades. Around the house stand a log schoolhouse, a kitchen and laundry, a smokehouse and an ice house. Farther out are a livestock barn and carriage house, a log tenant house, a pack house with an ordering pit, and two tobacco barns. George P. Tarry ran the 3,000-acre farm around 1900. The property was recognized for its agricultural and architectural importance between about 1800 and 1945.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800-1945","architect_builder":"Jacob W. Holt (attributed builder of the Greek Revival additions)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The property includes a main house, a schoolhouse modified as a dwelling, and farm buildings. Current functions listed include single dwelling, secondary dwelling, agricultural field and animal facility.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.643738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/6819/41681903/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000894.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000894/eaebadfd96-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000894/eaebadfd96-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Packer1028","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longgrassplantationfront.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Packer1028</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longgrassplantationfront.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681903","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Grass_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6672563"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/mecklenburg-county/long-grass-95000894/"}