Harper House (Stuarts Draft, Virginia)
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Harper House is a historic home located at Stuarts Draft,
Augusta County, Virginia Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and ...
. The house was built about 1888, and is a two-story, brick dwelling with a metal-sheathed hip roof with a bracketed cornice and a one-story front porch on highly decorative wood supports in the
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...
style. It has a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are a contributing meathouse, workshop, garage, windmill support, and
granary A granary, also known as a grain house and historically as a granarium in Latin, is a post-harvest storage building primarily for grains or seeds. Granaries are typically built above the ground to prevent spoilage and protect the stored grains o ...
. an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2006.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1888 Houses in Augusta County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia {{AugustaCountyVA-NRHP-stub