{"nrhp_refnum":"02000624","name":"Burwell-Holland House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 Jacks Mountain Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glade Hill","county":"Franklin (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":36.977178665000025,"lon":-79.74291295229992,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal style two-story brick plantation house at 600 Jacks Mountain Road in Glade Hill, Franklin County, Virginia, built in 1798 for Col. Lewis Burwell, with eight contributing outbuildings and a family cemetery on a 26-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C as one of a handful of substantial brick frontier plantation houses in the area, with its original layout, brickwork and splayed windows intact. It argues the strongest case under Criterion B for its link to William Armistead Burwell, a Virginia legislator, the first Congressman from Franklin County, and a personal secretary to President Thomas Jefferson.","narrative":"Built in 1798 on a knoll at the base of Jack's Mountain in Glade Hill, this two-story Federal style brick house was the center of a plantation of about 3,000 acres created by Col. Lewis Burwell. The bricks were probably made on the property by enslaved workers. The house has a center hall plan, a full basement, gable-end chimneys, carved mantels, wainscoting and splayed window jambs reflecting Thomas Jefferson's influence. A frame addition was built at the rear in 1976, and eight outbuildings survive, including log structures from the early 1800s. It matters as one of the oldest remaining residences in the county and a rare surviving frontier plantation house built by Tidewater families moving west. It is also tied to William Armistead Burwell, who served in the Virginia General Assembly, as secretary to Jefferson, and as Franklin County's first Congressman. The Holland family has owned it since 1850.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Continuously occupied by the Holland family since 1850 except 1967-1975; the 1798 section was restored in 1976 and the parcel remains a working tobacco and dairy farm.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.455078-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/6807/41680772/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02000624.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000624/5596a1b716-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000624/5596a1b716-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burwell-Holland_House_from_the_road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burwell-Holland_House_from_the_road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680772","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell%E2%80%93Holland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712113"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/franklin/burwell-holland-house-02000624/"}