{"nrhp_refnum":"03000572","name":"Sessions-Pope-Sheild House","other_names":["Sheild House","Sessions House","99-0019"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yorktown","county":"York County","state":"VA","lat":37.23410000000007,"lon":-76.50665999999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story brick Southern Colonial/Georgian dwelling at 600 Main Street, corner of Nelson and Main Streets, Yorktown, York County, Virginia, dating to the mid-eighteenth century, with a noncontributing mid-twentieth-century garage on a half-acre lot.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an excellent, largely unaltered example of a mid-eighteenth-century Virginia masonry dwelling, with Flemish bond brickwork, a jerkin-head roof and a distinctive central-hall plan with a rear stair. It also notes archaeological potential: 2002 testing found colonial brick and marl foundations, indicating integrity and potential to yield important information.","narrative":"Standing on a half-acre lot at the corner of Nelson and Main Streets in Yorktown, this one-and-a-half-story brick house dates to the mid-eighteenth century. Its walls are whitewashed Flemish bond brick laid with oyster-shell mortar, and it has a clipped-gable (jerkin-head) slate roof, an original modillion cornice and an elaborately stepped west chimney. Inside, a central hall leads to a round-arched opening with fluted pilasters and keystone, and the stair is placed at the rear so visitors see no sign of an upper floor. A newel post copies one in the neighboring Nelson House. Later changes include a mid-nineteenth-century kitchen wing, a porch, and a reworked basement, but the original appearance remains intact. A 1950 garage is noncontributing. Archaeological testing in 2002 found three colonial walls, including brick and marl foundations, suggesting that buried remains of earlier outbuildings could provide important information. The house has been a single-family home throughout its history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial-Southern Colonial/Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continuously occupied as a single-family dwelling since it was first built; the basement has been altered the most.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.15356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/6842/41684247/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000572/86c83ca45a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000572/86c83ca45a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"SKM2000","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheild_House,_Yorktown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">SKM2000</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheild_House,_Yorktown.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684247","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessions%E2%80%93Pope%E2%80%93Sheild_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7456140"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/york-county/sessions-pope-sheild-house-03000572/"}