{"nrhp_refnum":"04001539","name":"Dixon","other_names":["Dixon Plantation","049-0019"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"402 Limehouse rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shacklefords","county":"King and Queen County","state":"VA","lat":37.58548006300006,"lon":-76.79153530890068,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Dixon is a single-dwelling plantation house at 402 Limehouse Road, Shacklefords, King and Queen County, Virginia, on the Mattaponi River. It is a five-bay frame house with a gambrel roof and brick ends, built about 1793.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Dixon is a significant example of late-eighteenth-century Tidewater Virginia architecture under Criterion C. It keeps its five-bay form, brick Flemish-bond end walls, and original interior woodwork, including a paneled parlor fireplace wall and the hall stair. Modest river plantation houses like it are less well represented than larger ones, and few county properties are listed.","narrative":"Dixon is a frame plantation house on the east bank of the Mattaponi River in King and Queen County, Virginia. Built about 1793, shortly after Richard Dixon bought the land, it has five bays, a gambrel roof with dormers, and brick end walls laid in Flemish bond with interior chimneys. Inside, a central passage with a sculptural stair separates two rooms. The parlor has a fully paneled fireplace wall with fluted pilasters and dentil cornice. Wings added in the twentieth century were removed, and low hyphens now link the original house to a kitchen building and a master suite. Archaeology found foundations of an earlier house and kitchen on the site, along with a likely cemetery. Dixon is considered locally significant as a surviving example of the modest river plantation houses of Tidewater Virginia, and its original woodwork and form give it architectural importance in the county.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1793","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling. Wings added in the 1950s were removed and replaced with low one-story hyphens and flanking buildings housing a kitchen and master suite. Four non-contributing outbuildings stand on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.737381-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/6813/41681385/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04001539.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001539/eaf7d8375c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001539/eaf7d8375c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Elsie J. Mistie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dixon,_aka_Dixon_Plantation,_Shacklefords,_King_and_Queen_County,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Elsie J. Mistie</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dixon,_aka_Dixon_Plantation,_Shacklefords,_King_and_Queen_County,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681385","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_(Shacklefords,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-and-queen-county/dixon-04001539/"}