{"nrhp_refnum":"04000850","name":"Bloomington","other_names":["054-0006"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Bloomington Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Louisa","county":"Louisa County","state":"VA","lat":37.977624078000076,"lon":-77.99214429399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bloomington is an antebellum farmhouse with four historic farm outbuildings on a seven-acre parcel about two and a half miles southeast of Louisa Courthouse in Louisa County, Virginia. The house grew from a ca. 1790 split-log dwelling, a ca. 1832 main block and a ca. 1900 rear addition.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property qualifies under Criterion C because the house's evolution reflects the dwellings built for small farmers in Louisa County in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It also preserves an increasingly rare example of English frame construction expressed in early Southern Colonial style. It is described as one of the oldest dwellings in central Louisa County and retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Bloomington is a farmhouse on a ridge above Beaver Creek, southeast of Louisa Courthouse in Louisa County, Virginia. It developed in three stages: a ca. 1790 one-and-one-half-story split-log wing on a rubble-stone foundation, a ca. 1832 two-story, three-bay frame main block over a raised brick basement, and a one-story rear addition from about 1900. Weatherboard covers the whole house, and the roofs are standing-seam metal. Inside, the log wing keeps its corner fireplaces and hewn logs, while the main block shows Greek Revival woodwork, heart pine floors and plaster over riven lath. Four farm outbuildings survive: a tobacco barn, horse barn, corn crib and tool shed. The property was listed for its architecture. It shows how a small farmer's house in Louisa County grew over time and preserves rare English frame construction in an early Southern Colonial form. Early owners came from the prominent Johnson family. The buildings are currently vacant, with restoration planned.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1790-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"COLONIAL: Southern Colonial","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed in the form's current functions as vacant/not in use; recent owners had begun removing sheetrock from the log walls in preparation for a planned restoration.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.760248-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/6816/41681693/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000850.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000850/4c0a6cbf05-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000850/4c0a6cbf05-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomington_near_Louisa.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomington_near_Louisa.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681693","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomington_(Louisa,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712042"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/louisa-county/bloomington-04000850/"}