{"nrhp_refnum":"99000959","name":"Homeplace, The","other_names":["DHR File No. 56-5008"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 29, jct. with VA 603","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison","county":"Madison County","state":"VA","lat":38.40323568300005,"lon":-78.22187209399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead complex just over two miles north of Madison in Madison County, Virginia, with a mid-19th century frame dwelling enlarged ca. 1875 on an I-house plan, plus seven contributing buildings including a barn, furniture shop, well house, sun pit, bunkhouse and meathouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant under Criteria A and C for its well-preserved 19th and early-20th-century residential and agricultural buildings. It also holds a rare surviving manufacturing building from Madison County's furniture industry. The Clore chair business, begun in 1830, is the only one of more than a dozen county furniture makers to survive to the present day.","narrative":"Just over two miles north of the town of Madison, the Homeplace is a farm complex on land the Clore family has owned since 1744. The weatherboarded frame house began as a modest hall-and-parlor dwelling from the second quarter of the 19th century and was enlarged about 1875 with a two-story I-house wing. Its brackets, doors and moldings reflect the skills of James O. Clore and his furniture craftsmen, who acted as designers and partly as builders. Surrounding the house are well-preserved outbuildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries: a barn, well house, sun pit, bunkhouse, meathouse and the so-called new furniture shop. The Clore chair business began here in 1830 and, like many furniture makers, the family also made coffins and worked as undertakers. Of more than a dozen furniture manufacturers once active in Madison County, the Clore operation is the only one that survives today, which underpins the property's architectural and industrial importance.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1830 to ca. 1949","architect_builder":"Clore, James O.; Clore, James Cleveland","architectural_style":"Other: I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions include single dwelling and secondary structure, with some agricultural, industrial and domestic outbuildings listed as not in use. The sun pit is still used for its original purpose and the new furniture shop is used for storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.101909-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/6818/41681851/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99000959.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000959/9dcbd77aaf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000959/9dcbd77aaf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Gauemj2017","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Homeplace.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gauemj2017</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:The_Homeplace.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681851","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homeplace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713309"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/madison-county/homeplace-the-99000959/"}