{"nrhp_refnum":"03001442","name":"Hollow, The","other_names":["The Boyhood Home of Chief Justice John Marshall","VDHR File No. 030-0803"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 688, Leeds Manor Rd. and N of Marshall School Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Markham","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.91750794700005,"lon":-77.99229828604854,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-01-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Invention"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story, three-bay frame hall-and-chamber dwelling built in 1763-1764 on a 322-acre farm in a valley north of Markham, Fauquier County, Virginia. It is known as the boyhood home of Chief Justice John Marshall.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the house to Thomas Marshall, father of Chief Justice John Marshall, who leased the land and built the dwelling in the 1760s (Criterion B). It also argues the house is a rare, well-documented example of an eighteenth-century timber-framed tenant dwelling with early construction evidence (Criterion C). The study also corrects the old belief that the house was a log cabin.","narrative":"Set in a valley known as Wildcat Hollow just north of Markham, this 322-acre farm holds a modest frame dwelling built in 1763-1764 on land leased by Thomas Marshall, father of future Chief Justice John Marshall. The house is one and one-half stories with three bays, a fieldstone foundation, a stone end chimney and a metal gable roof. Inside, a hall-and-chamber plan survives, along with hewn and pit-sawn framing, wrought nails, early beaded weatherboard and traces of plaster and original paint. A fully plastered garret is unusual. Detailed study of this fabric shows the house was timber-framed and weatherboarded, not the log cabin family accounts and a 1937 survey suggested. Its significance rests on the Marshall family connection and on its value as a rare surviving eighteenth-century tenant dwelling. Today the house is vacant and deteriorating, with a ruined later house and a few farm outbuildings nearby.","period_of_significance":"1763-1773","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial: Hall-and-chamber","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The dwelling and agricultural outbuilding are listed as vacant; the dwelling is boarded up, has lost its sash, and shows structural deterioration, with repair and restoration anticipated.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.017597-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/6806/41680671/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03001442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001442/c2851e7b8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001442/c2851e7b8d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jwalk1230","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollow_House_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jwalk1230</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:Hollow_House_2.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001138","name":"Marshall's, John, Leeds Manor Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/marshalls-john-leeds-manor-rural-historic-district-07001138/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680671","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_(Markham,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713306"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/hollow-the-03001442/"}