007-0233

Harper House

Augusta (County)

VLR Listing Date

2005-12-07

NRHP Listing Date

2006-02-01

NHL Listing Date

NA

NRHP Reference Number

5001623

Surrounded by farmland and a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Harper House is located outside Stuarts Draft in Augusta County. The two-story brick house was built circa 1888 for farmer John J. Harper, his wife Sarah, and the couple’s family and later passed in the early 20th century to George Harper, an educational reformer who helped modernize Augusta County schools, and his wife Carmen. The house has a richly ornamented front porch with sawn and pierced woodwork and inside Greek Revival woodwork–mantels and a stair newel carved with a star design. Still in the Harper family at the time of its listing in the registers in 2005-2006, the property retains several historic domestic outbuildings including a large meat house and a structure that likely served as a summer kitchen, laundry, and dwelling before functioning as a workshop most recently. A large mortise-and-tenon frame granary on the Harper House tract features a threshing floor flanked by grain bins and a slatted corncrib.

Last Updated: March 24, 2023

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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark

Photo credit: David Edwards/DHR, 2022

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