{"nrhp_refnum":"01000688","name":"Anchorage, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1864 Anchorage Farm","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":37.97134763300005,"lon":-78.61628288570199,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-07-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A substantial brick farmhouse with a barn and family cemetery on a roughly 100-acre nominated parcel about five miles south of Charlottesville on U.S. Route 29 in Albemarle County, Virginia. The original hall-parlor house dates to the second quarter of the 19th century, with later additions.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant in architecture under Criterion C for the unusual character of its Victorian finishes, including Gothic Revival interior woodwork, scroll-sawn porches and Italianate octagonal columns. It also cites the high integrity of the house's evolved form. The house is described as a key element of a group of related area buildings that merit further study.","narrative":"Set on a north-south ridge about five miles south of Charlottesville, The Anchorage is a brick farmhouse that grew in stages over roughly half a century. Its core is a two-story hall-parlor house with a slate roof, probably built between 1826 and 1846, possibly by Howell Lewis. At mid-century a rear brick wing gave it a T-shaped plan, and the house was remodeled in Italianate and Gothic Revival taste. A two-story porch with scroll-sawn ornament and unusual octagonal columns was added, along with Gothic-arched paneling beside the stair and on the doors. An early 1900s kitchen wing in weatherboard followed. The farm passed in 1852 to John White, and his descendants owned it for 131 years. The nominated acreage also holds an early 20th-century modified bank barn and a family cemetery with thirteen known graves. The property was listed for the unusual character of its finishes and the integrity of its evolved form.","period_of_significance":"2nd Quarter 19th Century-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century Gothic Revival; Late Victorian Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house, barn and cemetery retain their historic functions as a single dwelling, barn and cemetery; the house is described as well preserved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.695939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6792/41679283/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01000688.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000688/de189d37fe-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000688/de189d37fe-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Anchorage_near_Charlottesville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Anchorage_near_Charlottesville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679283","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anchorage_(Charlottesville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/anchorage-the-01000688/"}