{"nrhp_refnum":"03000210","name":"Bunting Place","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31181 Drummondtown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wachapreague","county":"Accomack County","state":"VA","lat":37.62013660900004,"lon":-75.6927480337283,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bunting Place is a two-story, five-bay brick-ended frame farmhouse with attached service wings, two historic outbuildings and a small family cemetery, on a 35-acre nominated tract north of Wachapreague, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built around 1826 for merchant-planter Solomon Bunting.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C for a regionally distinctive construction method, with timber-frame front and rear walls between Flemish bond brick gable ends. Its interior retains a high percentage of early 19th-century Federal/Greek Revival woodwork. Its 19th-century paint schemes, restored after microscopic analysis, are described as singularly outstanding in Accomack County. Together they show the priorities of an upper-level merchant-planter's dwelling.","narrative":"Bunting Place is a farmhouse north of Wachapreague in Accomack County, Virginia, reached by a long lane and bordered by Nickawampus Creek. Merchant-planter Solomon Bunting financed the house after buying a 365-acre tract in 1826. The two-story, five-bay dwelling has front and rear walls of beaded weatherboard set between Flemish bond brick gable ends, a method of construction regarded as thrifty and regionally distinctive. A story-and-a-half kitchen wing and later additions extend it in the stepped, telescoping form common on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Inside, the Federal and Greek Revival woodwork is largely original, and the parlor is the most elaborate room. Restored paint finishes, including grained doors and marbled mantels, are described as unmatched elsewhere on the Eastern Shore. A frame barn, a corn house and a family cemetery with four burials complete the historic grounds. The house is valued for its architecture and for what it shows of a successful early 19th-century merchant-planter's household.","period_of_significance":"c. 1826-1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the main block was restored in the 1980s, when a hyphen and rear wing were added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.684205-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/6791/41679197/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000210.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679197","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunting_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14691892"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/accomack-county/bunting-place-03000210/"}