{"nrhp_refnum":"01000144","name":"Craft, Phillip, House","other_names":["DHR File No.71-188"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1381 Old Red Eye Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chatham","county":"Pittsylvania County","state":"VA","lat":36.903442667000036,"lon":-79.45957483499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story, hall-parlor brick dwelling of about 1819 on 1.67 acres in the Red Eye community, roughly seven miles northwest of Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It has an early-twentieth-century weatherboard addition and four outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is one of a handful of surviving early-nineteenth-century brick buildings in Pittsylvania County. It is also distinguished by rounded bricks in the water table and chimney haunches, a detail described as rare anywhere in Virginia. It qualifies locally under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Built about 1819 for Philip Craft, this one-and-a-half-story brick house sits on a gentle slope at the headwaters of Cherrystone Creek, northwest of Chatham in Pittsylvania County. Its hall-parlor plan is laid in Flemish bond on all four walls, with gauged brick jack arches, a corbeled cornice and exterior end chimneys. Rounded bricks run along the water table and appear in the chimney haunches, a feature reported as rare in Virginia. Craft, of German descent, farmed hundreds of acres here with enslaved labor until he deeded the property in 1856. In 1904 H.P. Haden bought the house and added a two-story weatherboard wing, later joined to the original block by a one-story hyphen during a 1992 restoration. Early-twentieth-century log and frame outbuildings remain nearby. The house was recognized for architecture because few early brick dwellings survive in the county, and this one is well preserved.","period_of_significance":"1819-1856","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic; hall-parlor plan","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1992; the historic function was a single dwelling and the current function is listed as commerce/trade, professional.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.521268-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/6825/41682552/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01000144.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000144/ec8168b60a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000144/ec8168b60a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillip_Craft_House,_side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillip_Craft_House,_side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682552","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Craft_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42377258"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pittsylvania-county/craft-phillip-house-01000144/"}